THE MISSING WILL A HERCULE POIROT MYSTERY by AGATHA CHRISTIE
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 11 September 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone. The one thousand one classic short stories and tales this is your host |
| 0:34.0 | John Hagadorn it's time for another aircule pouro mystery this one called the |
| 0:39.4 | missing will by Agathaicatha Christie. |
| 0:46.0 | The problem presented to us by Miss Violet Marsh made a rather pleasant change from our usual routine work. |
| 0:49.0 | Poirot had received a brisk and business-like note from the lady asking for an appointment and he had |
| 0:54.5 | replied asking her to call upon him at 11 o'clock the following day. |
| 0:59.8 | She arrived punctually, a tall, handsome young woman, plainly but neatly dressed, with an assured |
| 1:06.0 | and business-like manner, clearly a young woman who met to get on in the world. |
| 1:11.6 | I am not a great admirer of the so-called new woman myself and in spite of her |
| 1:16.0 | good looks I was not particularly prepossessed in her favor. |
| 1:20.3 | Mr. Boro she began after she had accepted a chair. |
| 1:24.4 | I had better begin at the beginning and tell you the whole story. |
| 1:28.0 | If you please, Mademoiselle. |
| 1:31.0 | I am an orphan. |
| 1:32.3 | My father was one of two brothers, sons of a small yeoman farmer in Devonshire. |
| 1:37.0 | The farm was a poor one, and the eldest brother, Andrew, emigrated to Australia, where he did very well indeed and by means of |
| 1:44.8 | successful speculation and land became a very rich man. The younger brother |
| 1:49.9 | Roger, my father, had no leanings toward the agricultural life. |
| 1:54.8 | He managed to educate himself a little and obtained a post as a clerk in a small firm. |
| 2:00.1 | He married slightly above him. |
| 2:01.8 | My mother was the daughter of a poor artist. My father died when I was six years old. |
| 2:07.0 | When I was 14, my mother followed him to the grave. My only living relation then was my uncle Andrew who had recently returned from Australia |
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