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!
@fieldofrelax986 Жыл бұрын
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 🙏 🌟✨🫶✨🌟
@janeclifford585Күн бұрын
Thank you ❤
@margaretevans685011 ай бұрын
Enjoyed listening to his voice...thank you love Agatha Christie
@hopenield8234 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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@sannydee Жыл бұрын
Same!
@kimberlysuzanfletcher39207 ай бұрын
KZbin Premium
@natasharosetarrant10 ай бұрын
I’m delighted to have stumbled upon your channel. Thanks so much for taking the time to upload such gems…
@Anil188346 ай бұрын
Excellent narration
@wildkitties47 ай бұрын
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.
@susanmorgan4151 Жыл бұрын
A wonderful evening listening to Black Coffee, sipping tea with honey, in my PJ's. Thank you so much.
@puffley1912 Жыл бұрын
This was brilliant, thank you for sharing it.
@judikingsman6132 Жыл бұрын
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💥😊
@TuringTalesTV Жыл бұрын
Ah the classics! Great work.
@timgluckman86633 ай бұрын
Wonderfully understated performance by John Moffat , a finer radio actor than I had réalised
@timgluckman86633 ай бұрын
Or a wonderful performance of understatement
@victorioify Жыл бұрын
Well done! The characters are engaging and have come life with the skill of the reader!!🎉
@davidknowles2491 Жыл бұрын
Why can I not unsee Wallace from Wallace and Gromit in that photo?
@johnmcdonough95511 ай бұрын
Johnny Vegas' Moounkey for me.
@deirdrecowan-brown51099 ай бұрын
Once seen...
@FreedHearts9 ай бұрын
LOL
@nikinik5620 Жыл бұрын
What a marvelous find!! Thank you.
@judemorales4U11 ай бұрын
Well done!
@opheliahamlet3508 Жыл бұрын
Terrific! Got the whole house cleaned with this one and finished with a whiskey and soda...well, I skipped the whiskey
@abige69 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
"It's a trap" 😂
@jha92356 ай бұрын
@@RhysOlwynhahahahah that's what I saw, too
@barbarabates32922 жыл бұрын
Love this story great narration
@shiburahulan4513 Жыл бұрын
Beautifully read and acted thank you.
@nessa71034 Жыл бұрын
Loved this. Thank you
@zacharylukem Жыл бұрын
Enjoyed listening, I believe the narrator also played Poirot in lots of radio productions 👏
@TheMrswestbrom Жыл бұрын
Yes, David Moffat, back in the day. They make great listening, so do the BBC’s miss marple plays with June Whitfield 😊
@zacharylukem Жыл бұрын
@@TheMrswestbrom thanks for the recommendation!
@TheMrswestbrom Жыл бұрын
@@zacharylukem you’re so welcome but I got the actor’s name wrong. It’s John Moffat, sorry 😊
@zacharylukem Жыл бұрын
No problem, I checked it out and enjoyed so far!@@TheMrswestbrom
@VanessaVasquez096 күн бұрын
Im drinking coffeee for this one
@wendy6512 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💕💕💕 Can really RELATE to your comment!!!🤣🤣🤣
@jodywho6696 Жыл бұрын
Wonderful✨
@mariameere5807 Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much ❤
@QUICKSILVER3694 күн бұрын
She loves "The boy stood on the burning deck, when . . . .'" from Casabianca by Felicia Hemans, second book this was quoted in. The first time I read it was in "The Secret of chimneys". It's a very famous quotation used by authors. It also has many off-colour parodies! I learn so much from her. It's nice to see Inspector Japp. He appears regularly in the TV shows, made his first, I believe, "cameo" appearance in the first Tommy and Tuppance series. Thanks!
@bublegumpink8549 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant
@wendysonvacation Жыл бұрын
Wonderful Thank you
@gilllongano5360 Жыл бұрын
Yesssss!!!! Thank you all🙏🏻🙏🏻
@dogsofalvsbacka Жыл бұрын
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?".
@QPRTokyo Жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@hitgirlalkire Жыл бұрын
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.
@scuddster Жыл бұрын
I always imagine John dressed exquisitely as "Lord Merlin" in the 1980 TV adaption of Nancy Mitford's "Love In A Cold Climate"
@Loobylooto2 Жыл бұрын
Thank you very much
@MissWitchiepoo Жыл бұрын
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
@DJWNB Жыл бұрын
His brioche 🥐
@liulubest33312 жыл бұрын
I❤❤❤ reading by John Moffatt with this British English pronunciation
@mavisemberson87372 жыл бұрын
The story is set in England therefore English English
@maxmarnau7019 Жыл бұрын
@@mavisemberson8737 and, thank goodness, not an American trying to "do" UK English.
@SittingWithLutes7 ай бұрын
@@maxmarnau7019 It’s the difference between having a silver spoon and a runcible spoon.
@mtsenskmtsensk5113 Жыл бұрын
I thought Poirot lived in Whitehaven mansions not Whitehall mansions.
@lindawingrove5863 Жыл бұрын
You're right.
@johnthorpe83412 жыл бұрын
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 😏
@bonnie_gail Жыл бұрын
perfection
@neveenghonima8188 Жыл бұрын
38:47
@judithhopes1512 жыл бұрын
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?
@liz10602 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.
@mitchg7809 Жыл бұрын
I see that shrimp head looking alien from Star Wars when I look at the thumbnail.
The flashing "subscribe" button is very, very annoying.
@jungefrau2 жыл бұрын
Do you actually watch audiobook videos? Just listen to it.
@lovinlife59122 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?🙄
@brenodiasmagalhaes9691 Жыл бұрын
2:30:23
@sidicniy8742 жыл бұрын
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.
@cruisepaige2 жыл бұрын
He’s pretty harmless.
@1brummell2 жыл бұрын
Seems to me she came on to him.
@cornishmade1002 жыл бұрын
That's all men
@bilindalaw-morley1612 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".
@suZanna202 жыл бұрын
@@bilindalaw-morley161 here here ❤👏👏👏👏🥰
@prins_af_danmark7 ай бұрын
AFRICAN-AMERICAN COFFEE?
@rainbattiss4558 Жыл бұрын
D
@sandragrundy151610 ай бұрын
Almost 1hr in and nothing happening, no action only a boring conversation in the living room.
@sixtenjohansson4246 Жыл бұрын
I wish the reader didn't trail off into mumbling so much, it's really hard to hear what he says sometimes. 😐
@leoragaster45922 жыл бұрын
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?
@namrathaprasad29542 жыл бұрын
For me this is the worst Agatha Christie novel...such a boring plot...idiotic characters....uneccessary back n forth narrative...
@bilindalaw-morley1612 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-hh4vp2 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!
@inisipisTV2 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?