A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Case of the Missing Will by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It isn't often we're more critical than adoring of *both* a Christie story and its adaptation, but that seems to be the case here. I guess you could say where there's a missing will, there's a missing way. (Oof; just because you *could* say that doesn't mean you should....)We actually had a lot of fun exploring our different issues with each medium here. So put on your best suffragette-white outfit and come spend a spell with "new woman" Violet Marsh.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single
0:10.0	mystery novel written by The Queen of, Dame Agatha Christie.
0:15.0	I'm Catherine Brobeck.
0:17.0	And I'm Camper Donovan.
0:18.0	And this week we have a Poirot short story. It is the case of the missing will and surprising no one.
0:28.0	It was published in the sketch in October.
0:33.6	On Halloween no less, actually.
0:36.2	I know, very exciting, although it's not actually a very
0:39.2	Halloween themed.
0:41.3	It's not particularly spooky, is it?
0:43.2	It is potentially a spooky tale of the misogyny
0:46.6	that perhaps echoes through to this day.
0:50.0	True.
0:51.0	True. So we do have that.
0:55.0	Well, let's get into it.
0:56.5	Perfect segue.
0:58.0	Our victim, Miss Violet Marsh, who is a young modern woman of
1:02.6	1993, which means that she has a university degree
1:07.1	and she was orphaned and raised by her uncle.
1:10.0	One, Mr. Andrew Marsh, He came from poor stock.
1:13.2	He went to Australia where he became very, very wealthy
1:18.7	as a landowner and a farmer.
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