Poirot and The Widow’s Ledger | A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Audiobook Fan-Fiction)

Old English money doesn’t retire into peace. It retires into upholstery.

At Wrenham Court, Mrs. Octavia Merrow ruled from a monstrous armchair with a silver bell at her elbow—an invalid in the English sense: less a medical condition than a position of power.

Now she is dead.

And the one object that mattered most is missing: her private ledger—an account book of people, favours, “little arrangements,” and the quiet dependencies that keep a family obedient.

Suspicion falls instantly on the paid companion, Miss Celeste Daintry—useful, close at hand, and convenient to blame.

But Poirot knows this type of house. In rooms like these, theft is rarely about money. It’s about prevention. And when the wrong person is made to carry the blame, the house doesn’t just turn cold.

It turns dangerous.

Poirot and The Widow’s Ledger is a slow-burn country-house mystery about reputations, manipulation, and the weaponisation of “respectability”—where the most frightening thing isn’t what the ledger contains, but who can afford to keep it unread.

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS Poirot and The Widow’s Ledger

00:00 – Intro & ambience[CH1] – Chapter 1 — The Lady Who Collected People[CH2] – Chapter 2 — Useful People and Other Hazards[CH3] – Chapter 3 — The Ledger’s Shadow[CH4] – Chapter 4 — The Will, Read Aloud Like a Threat[CH5] – Chapter 5 — The Afternoon That Would Not Behave[CH6] – Chapter 6 — The Account Closed

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