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The Murder on the Links full cast audiobook

by Agatha Christie · Hercule Poirot, Book 2

Released 6 October 2026 · Updated 6 October 2026 · 6h 54m · 29 voices

The story (no spoilers)

Captain Hastings follows Hercule Poirot to the French seaside village of Merlinville, summoned by a client who has begged the great detective for protection. They arrive too late: Paul Renauld lies stabbed in the back, buried in a freshly dug grave beside a golf course. Poirot now faces a puzzle with no shortage of candidates, from the dead man's grieving wife and his son to the neighbour next door and a mysterious visitor seen the day before. Worse, the Paris Sûreté has sent Giraud, a brisk and scornful investigator who has no patience for Poirot's quiet method of patient reasoning and long memory for old crimes. While the two rivals race for the truth, Hastings finds his attention pulled elsewhere, by a girl he met on the Calais train who called herself Cinderella and who has an unsettling way of turning up again. What was Renauld afraid of, and who wanted him buried so quickly?

The cast

21 speaking roles are listed; walk-on parts are not. Each voice was designed, or chosen from our library of designed voices, to fit how the book describes the character, and it stays with them from the first chapter to the last. Portraits are illustrated impressions of each character.

Hercule Poirot
Male, about sixty years old, a Belgian retired detective living in England and France in the 1920s, middle-class and fastidious. He speaks with a clear Belgian French accent in odd, precise English. His voice is a light, slightly nasal tenor from a small, neat frame. He speaks briskly, with careful emphasis, and his tone is gentle, ironical, vain and confident, becoming excitable when he has a lead.
Captain Hastings
Male, about thirty years old, an Englishman in London and France in the 1920s, a middle-class wounded army officer working as a private secretary. He speaks with a natural, mildly upper-middle-class received pronunciation. His voice is a warm, easy, medium baritone. He speaks at a brisk, conversational pace, with a plain, open tone, and he is eager, good-natured, impulsive and a little old-fashioned.
M. Hautet
Male, about fifty-six years old, a French examining magistrate in a small seaside town in 1920s France, upper-middle-class and formal. He speaks with a refined northern French accent. His voice is a dry, slightly hoarse, lean baritone from a tall, gaunt frame. He speaks slowly and deliberately, with smooth, ceremonious phrasing, and he is dignified, probing, proud and easily offended.
Giraud
Male, about forty-two years old, a French police detective from Paris in the 1920s, middle-class and confident. He speaks with a quick Parisian French accent. His voice is a smooth, quiet, mid-range tenor with a cool edge, from a lean, wiry build. He speaks in clipped, even phrases, and his tone is suave, mocking and superior, with a self-satisfied laugh.
M. Bex
Male, about fifty years old, a French police commissary in a seaside town in 1920s France, middle-class and sociable. He speaks with a warm southern French accent. His voice is a bright, rounded, slightly high tenor from a stout, bustling build. He speaks fast and eagerly, with ceremonious politeness, and his tone is excitable, friendly and quick to be astonished.
Cinderella
Female, about twenty years old, an English music-hall actress and dancer travelling in 1920s England and France, working-class and street-smart. She speaks with a light London accent and plenty of slang. Her voice is a bright, husky-edged mezzo-soprano, youthful and animated. She speaks quickly and voluble, with cheeky humour, and her demeanor is impudent, merry and flippant, turning calm and clear when serious.
Jack Renauld
Male, about twenty-two years old, a Frenchman educated in England, living in northern France in 1923, the son of a wealthy family. He speaks with a polished, formal English-educated accent, lightly touched by French. A light, clear tenor, slim and youthful, which tightens and wavers with emotion. Speaks at a measured, polite pace, going quiet and curt when pressed. Dutiful, reserved and earnest.
Madame Renauld
Female, about forty-eight years old, a wealthy Frenchwoman, mistress of a seaside villa in 1920s France, upper-class. She speaks with a refined French accent and careful English. Her voice is a low, soft, slightly weary alto. She speaks slowly and quietly, with composure, and her tone is dignified, gracious and proud, with a trace of pain as she recovers from shock.
Gabriel Stonor
Male, about forty years old, an Englishman working as a business secretary and travelling from England to France in the 1920s, middle-class. He speaks with a plain Midlands English accent, with no polish. His voice is a rough, gravelly, deep baritone from a solid build. He speaks bluntly in short, colloquial bursts, and his demeanor is frank, practical and warm underneath.
Marthe Daubreuil
Female, about twenty-two years old, a beautiful young Frenchwoman living quietly in a seaside villa in 1920s France, middle-class. She speaks English with a soft French accent. Her voice is a light, breathy soprano with a slight tremor. She speaks quickly and softly, sometimes in a rush, and her demeanor is anxious, secretive and tender.
Françoise
Female, about sixty-eight years old, an old French household servant in a seaside villa in 1920s France, working-class. She speaks with a broad rural Norman French accent. Her voice is a rough, cracked, low contralto from a stout, broad-shouldered frame. She speaks slowly and emphatically, with scornful stubbornness, and her demeanor is obstinate, sagely proud and easily frightened.
Madame Daubreuil
Female, about forty-five years old, a composed Frenchwoman of mysterious means, living in a seaside villa in 1920s France, upper-middle-class. She speaks fluent English with a polished Parisian French accent. Her voice is a rich, smooth, low contralto. She speaks slowly and evenly with a slight edge of irony, and her demeanor is proud, composed and guarded, flaring with anger when pressed.
Bella Duveen
Female, about twenty-four years old, an English music-hall singer and dancer in 1920s England and France, working-class but gently spoken. She speaks with a soft, slightly refined London accent. Her voice is a warm, sweet, medium-high soprano with a catch in it. She speaks in a low, hurried, half-whispered way, and her demeanor is loving, distraught and sincere.
Denise
Female, about thirty-two years old, a French domestic servant in a seaside villa in 1920s France, working-class. She speaks with a strong French accent in confident, imperfect English. Her voice is a bright, forward, medium-high mezzo. She speaks briskly, with dramatic emphasis, and her demeanor is attention-seeking, self-important and eager to share theories.
Léonie
Female, about twenty-six years old, a French lady's maid in a seaside villa in 1920s France, working-class. She speaks with a lively Parisian French accent. Her voice is a high, fluttery, tearful soprano. She speaks very fast and talkatively, rising and falling with gossip, and her demeanor is gossipy, emotional and enjoying the attention.
Dr. Durand
Male, about sixty-eight years old, a French country doctor in a seaside town in 1920s France, educated middle-class. He speaks with a crisp provincial French accent. His voice is a dry, thin, mid-high tenor from stooping shoulders and age. He speaks in brisk, blunt bursts, and his demeanor is practical, impatient and honest enough to admit a mistake.
Auguste
Male, about seventy years old, an old French gardener on a seaside estate in 1920s France, working-class. He speaks with a broad rural Norman French accent. His voice is a deep, gravelly bass, worn by years outdoors. He speaks slowly and garrulously, with polite phrasing, and his demeanor is proud of his work, talkative and gruff.
Marchaud
Male, about thirty-five years old, a French town policeman on duty in a seaside town in 1920s France, working-class. He speaks with a flat northern French accent. His voice is an even, dry, medium tenor with a stiff manner. He speaks in measured, formal phrases, and his demeanor is dutiful, respectful and correct.
Mr. Aarons
Male, about fifty-five years old, an English theatrical agent in London in the 1920s, middle-class and well-off. He speaks with a quick, breezy London accent with some theatrical slang. His voice is a warm, plummy, mid-low baritone from a comfortable build. He speaks fast and chattily, and his demeanor is genial, shrewd and good-humoured.
Renauld
Male, about fifty-two years old, a wealthy self-made businessman living in a seaside villa in France in the 1920s, upper-class. He speaks with a plain, hard-worn accent, French with a trace of North American. His voice is a firm, medium baritone from a slender, lithe frame. He speaks in short, crisp, decisive sentences, and his demeanor is commanding, private and worried.
Maître Grosíer
Male, about forty-eight years old, a French defence lawyer in 1920s France, upper-middle-class. He speaks with a polished Parisian French accent. His voice is a rich, resonant, pompous baritone with a rounded timbre. He speaks in rolling, formal sentences that burst out in protest, and his demeanor is protective, indignant and dignified.

Chapters

28 chapter markers; each link opens the video on YouTube at that point.

Series

Book 2 of 34 in Hercule Poirot. 5 released so far.

Previous: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Book 1)
Next: Poirot Investigates (Book 3)

About this recording

Narrator: Told in Captain Hastings's own character voice
Runtime: 6h 54m (complete and unabridged)
Voices: 29
Channel: Full Cast Audiobooks on YouTube
Released: 6 October 2026
Updated: 6 October 2026
Author: Agatha Christie
First published: 1923
Kind: mystery novel
Source edition: Project Gutenberg eBook #58866
Public domain (US): The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie is in the public domain in the United States; text from Project Gutenberg.