I have read & listened to this book before & yet this time I enjoyed it far more than I have in the past. Agatha Christie is always a pleasure, like meeting a beloved aunt you have known all your life. I read my first Agatha Christie book when I was 12 & have been reading & re-reading them all my life. I realized about a year ago that I am now the age of Miss Marple. I’ll be 79 this year. So you can see that Agatha Christie & I have been friends for a very long time!

Fabulous to not have to deal with adverts every five minutes. Enjoyed this.

@suzannahjames5264

Жыл бұрын

Agreed! 🎉

@abige69

Жыл бұрын

I don't get any ads wiv this story. I don't have any 'ad-blockers' loaded either

@eileensharpe3045

10 ай бұрын

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@sannydee

7 ай бұрын

Same!

@kimberlysuzanfletcher3920

Ай бұрын

KZread Premium

Agatha Christie was a wonderful author and this is just a tiny sample of her work. Thank you so much for letting us enjoy it too.

Enjoyed listening to his voice...thank you love Agatha Christie

Thank you for telling that the video stopped working. Now the video works again...Thank you so much to everyone who listens the videos and your comments, ...

@mariameere5807

Жыл бұрын

We appreciate you more than you know 🙏 🌟✨🫶✨🌟

A wonderful evening listening to Black Coffee, sipping tea with honey, in my PJ's. Thank you so much.

I'm listening to this treasure whilst eating a toasted roll with quince jam. No kidding, I also use a runcible spoon to place the jam onto my roll💥😊

Well done! The characters are engaging and have come life with the skill of the reader!!🎉

Why can I not unsee Wallace from Wallace and Gromit in that photo?

@johnmcdonough955

5 ай бұрын

Johnny Vegas' Moounkey for me.

@deirdrecowan-brown5109

4 ай бұрын

Once seen...

@FreedHearts

3 ай бұрын

LOL

This was brilliant, thank you for sharing it.

I’m delighted to have stumbled upon your channel. Thanks so much for taking the time to upload such gems…

Excellent narration

Ah the classics! Great work.

That 'face' in the coffee is stuff of nightmares! Ekkkk!

@spooklyboo2337

Жыл бұрын

Lol …. I thought it was just me that sees that darn face!! Wish they’d change it!,

@msmltvcktl

Жыл бұрын

You two get spooked way too easily 😅

@RhysOlwyn

11 ай бұрын

"It's a trap" 😂

@jha9235

27 күн бұрын

​@@RhysOlwynhahahahah that's what I saw, too

iPods on heading up to Scotland in a car next to mother in law can’t thank you enough for uploading This fab story 👍 As she’s frying my brain

@gmadude1394

10 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💕💕💕 Can really RELATE to your comment!!!🤣🤣🤣

Beautifully read and acted thank you.

Terrific! Got the whole house cleaned with this one and finished with a whiskey and soda...well, I skipped the whiskey

I know that the foam on the coffee is supposed to look like Poirot but at first I was staring at it like "why is that cursed Wallace from Wallace and Gromit looking at me like that?".

Love this story great narration

I always imagine John dressed exquisitely as "Lord Merlin" in the 1980 TV adaption of Nancy Mitford's "Love In A Cold Climate"

What a marvelous find!! Thank you.

Enjoyed listening, I believe the narrator also played Poirot in lots of radio productions 👏

@TheMrswestbrom

10 ай бұрын

Yes, David Moffat, back in the day. They make great listening, so do the BBC’s miss marple plays with June Whitfield 😊

@zacharyluke

10 ай бұрын

@@TheMrswestbrom thanks for the recommendation!

@TheMrswestbrom

10 ай бұрын

@@zacharyluke you’re so welcome but I got the actor’s name wrong. It’s John Moffat, sorry 😊

@zacharyluke

10 ай бұрын

No problem, I checked it out and enjoyed so far!@@TheMrswestbrom

Loved this. Thank you

Yesssss!!!! Thank you all🙏🏻🙏🏻

Well done!

Thank you so much ❤

Wonderful✨

Wonderful Thank you

I finished the book. It was awesome. Plus I also really enjoyed voice actors. One thing I like about her books this that each character has there own personality and you see things from there prospective.

Brilliant

Thank you.

Thank you very much

I wonder why they didn't make that a part of the Poirot television series? Thank you for sharing, it is really good!

@alexlazebat839

Жыл бұрын

it was a play then written into a book not by agatha christie

@multiplemike5021

Жыл бұрын

@@alexlazebat839 But it was a play by Agatha, they really should have adapted it. Oh well.

@alexlazebat839

Жыл бұрын

@@multiplemike5021 yes but i think by then it was part 2 poirot no captain hastings, japp etc but your right case of the missing will bears no resemblance to the story in the book

@mariameere5807

Жыл бұрын

@@alexlazebat839Oh is this the case of the missing will? I recently got that one so maybe I should wait before listening to this!? Thank you so much 😊

@alexlazebat839

Жыл бұрын

@@mariameere5807 yes manly because the book version is a treasure hunt and a short story

I❤❤❤ reading by John Moffatt with this British English pronunciation

@mavisemberson8737

Жыл бұрын

The story is set in England therefore English English

@maxmarnau7019

11 ай бұрын

@@mavisemberson8737 and, thank goodness, not an American trying to "do" UK English.

@SittingWithLutes

2 ай бұрын

@@maxmarnau7019 It’s the difference between having a silver spoon and a runcible spoon.

I thought Poirot lived in Whitehaven mansions not Whitehall mansions.

@lindawingrove5863

11 ай бұрын

You're right.

His brioche 🥐

MOFFAT IS THE FIRST POIROT-ITS 2AM IN BED 2 WATER BOTTLES LAPTOP ON MY KNEES-FLASHING PINK AND YELLOW SUBSCRIBE IS MORE THAN ANNOYING I AM NOW LOOKING AT THE BACK OF A LAPTOP-LOVE THIS RADIO PLAY NEVER HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE

@lorihogue5015

Жыл бұрын

I hear you! I cover the screen of my Kindle with a piece of clothing to block the light 😏

perfection

The ending was terrifying! (Is that spoiling?) 📖👀

38:47

Love John Moffat voice in audio,, do not remember him on TV or film or stage can , anyone recommend any visual utube contributions portraying him?

@liz1060

Жыл бұрын

He is a character actor mostly in British films and probably not better known by the public except for his portrayal of Poirot in the British radio series of Agatha Christie's mysteries.

I see that shrimp head looking alien from Star Wars when I look at the thumbnail.

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AFRICAN-AMERICAN COFFEE?

The flashing "subscribe" button is very, very annoying.

@jungefrau

Жыл бұрын

Do you actually watch audiobook videos? Just listen to it.

@lovinlife5912

Жыл бұрын

Bloody hell. I didn't notice it til u pointed it out 🤣

@judikingsman6132

Жыл бұрын

Why are you looking at the screen 🤔

@desertari

Жыл бұрын

@@judikingsman6132 What an unhelpful question.

@emmaessien-miles654

Жыл бұрын

Who looks at the screen while listening to an audiobook?🙄

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Thank you for another intriguing Poirot mystery. Hasting is the worst, his always dumb when it comes to women. Being married already still doesn't keep him away from seeking the attention of a beautiful woman, I will hate to be married to a man like him.

@cruisepaige

Жыл бұрын

He’s pretty harmless.

@1brummell

Жыл бұрын

Seems to me she came on to him.

@cornishmade100

Жыл бұрын

That's all men

@bilindalaw-morley161

Жыл бұрын

Hastings is a popular trope from light English fiction in the early twentieth century--a bit of a buffoon, easily embarassed and unsure how to deal with women. Dame Agatha actually disliked the character of Hastings. She put him in the first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles , and then, as she said, she was "stuck with him". He was popular, partly, I think because he was a recognisable, familiar character so publishers put pressure on her to use him again. I think it's a real sign of Dame Agatha's timeless appeal that you, and I, fifty or a hundred years later are so involved with the characters. You couldn't have paid her a better compliment! I like Captain Arthur Hastings. He's a gentleman, not very intelligent, but he has an agreeable, kind, nature. Despite his devoted loyalty to Poirot he gets teased and criticised when he can't keep up mentally. That hurts his feelings and puzzles him. He'd definitely be completely loyal and faithful to his wife with whom he fell deeply in love. (Murder on the Links) So much so that years after her death he's still emotional about it. ("Curtain"--the final Poirot novel) He was also a World War One soldier and hero, injured badly enough that he needed to come back to England for surgery and rehabilitation. However he makes no fuss about his wounds or his battle front experiences.(The Mysterious Affair at Styles) Dame Agatha might not have liked the character she invented, but she did make him admirable in several ways.. ETA sorry, I didn't mean to write a novella to answer you! If you've made it this far, please forgive me. I just enjoy talking, or in this case writing, about books. I'm also very glad to know Agatha Christie is as well known today and her work enjoyed as much as in her heyday, and that she's is still engaging and entertaining readers with her clever insights into human nature. Your comment gave me something to think about, and distracted me from some pain issues so I thank you. However I do apologise for the length of my reply(if you've made it this far lol) *Fun fact, Poirot would have been about 120+ years old in the last book featuring him; Hastings would have been 80+.("Curtain") Actually HRF Keating, who authored a book about Poirot, said he was 207 when...no, no spoilers;...207 in "Curtain".

@suZanna20

Жыл бұрын

@@bilindalaw-morley161 here here ❤👏👏👏👏🥰

Bookmark 38:23 48:18 1:13:10 1:25:27 1:28:14 2:42:00 3:06:25 3:09:21 3:27:08 3:37:36 3:51:49 4:08:49 4:10:14

@tjannarra1279

10 ай бұрын

Pp

I wish the reader didn't trail off into mumbling so much, it's really hard to hear what he says sometimes. 😐

Almost 1hr in and nothing happening, no action only a boring conversation in the living room.

Although I appreciate his attempts, I can't stand John Moffat's attempts at Belgian accent. Why can't actors study accents a little before inflicting pretend ones on us?

For me this is the worst Agatha Christie novel...such a boring plot...idiotic characters....uneccessary back n forth narrative...

@bilindalaw-morley161

Жыл бұрын

I haven't read//heard it yet, although I've been an Agatha fan for fifty years. That's because it was written as a play. It was was very popular, not up to record breaking 'Mousetrap" seasons and runs, but def popular. This and a few other stories were published after her death. It was never intended as a book. Might this be why it flopped as a book? If they didn't get someone very skillful, who was *extremely* familiar with the Dame's work, to adapt it, a good play would be ruined

@justme-hh4vp

Жыл бұрын

@@bilindalaw-morley161 Spiders Web was also a play that was turned into a novel and is pretty compelling. An hour into this and it is pretty dull!

@inisipisTV

Жыл бұрын

It’s actually a Play re-written into Novel. Re-used plots from the Christmas Pudding and the Mirror.

@bonnie_gail

Жыл бұрын

superior to most

@veganleigh4817

Жыл бұрын

@@justme-hh4vp Don't you think it all depends on who, exactly, turned the play into a novel?

Find hesitancy in Poirot's accent annoying.

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