A Murder is Announced 09/18 - Agatha Christie

[DemocritusWept]

"poking around aimlessly in the soil". Edmund's non-gardner's description of gardening. I rather adore this Edmund. I'm in love with Insp Craddock (JohnCastle) but Edmund is strangely endearing.

Hassank: this is one of my favorite oft-viewed youtube uploads, thank you!

[jmuslvr]

Bunny drops a couple of inadvertant clues about the solving of the murder. One at the breakfast table, and one in this scene. Miss Marple heard the remark, and remembers it later.

[talispoona]

Wonderful, seeing Kevin Whately...He looks like a baby, and so cute, too. After this, he played Sergeant Lewis in Morse, and now he has his own show on PBS, Mystery, reviving his role as Lewis, but he's had a promotion!

[allconspirer]

I wonder what happened to all that knitting she did, she must have made quite a scarf by then end of all these movies!

[radar1974]

@allconspirer it's usually a scarf or jumper for her nephew Raymond West :)

[torentrap]

That inspector really looks like Steve Martin :p

[velondratsnyc]

i ove the town lol

[bardar27]

"An old lady asking questions is just an old lady asking questions." That is the secret of Miss Marple.

[ellandelachapelle]

@bardar27 Yeah a great disguise. I was thinking of writing detective stories about an old lady in an old people´s home. Sitting in a wheel-chair and PRETENDING to be senile. But hearing everything! (and nights wheeling around snooping.) (in the first book there would be a murder at the old people´s home.) Why not? I´m a Swede. Once living practically neighbours with Stieg Larsson! (hint hint.)

[Fabstaire]

"he's a very odd young man, writes books" more terrific dialogue

[lollipopfop]

@Fabstaire Can you tell me whats so interesting about that?

[ZolotayaKoshka]

@ lollipopfop

If you had been living in a small secluded village and personally experienced the deep suspicion that 'bookishness' arouses in such places, it might make you smile too... Did for me. I grew up in a place like that, where being too learned gave a person a status in the community a bit like a sorcerer(ess)... :-)

[Fabstaire]

the bro and sis are a lot of fun

[thepcgamewalkthrough]

2:04

Nce dimples.  =)

[SwathiPallavi]

The brother-sister pair actually resemble each other. Good casting.

[gaiuskaiser]

Joan HIckson is absolutely charming

[LuckyPagoda]

It occurs to me that every detective has a special ability that she uses to gain on a case. Poirot has his "little gray cells," and Miss Marple has a sort of sixth sense that allows her to access a typology of personality. It's really quite brilliant.

[gaiuskaiser]

Excellent observation

[thepcgamewalkthrough]

That, and her village parallels.

[LuckyPagoda]

That is what I meant, really.

[evernetherall]

@thepcgamewalkthrough

oh yes, yes, yes! Excellent insight, 'thepcgame...'

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[chestnutroast]

I love the noise their shoes make on the stone!

[lollipopfop]

What are ration books? i imgine that there were shortages during the war, but how do they work? Are they Id?

[PETALSWORTH]

Ration books were issued as coupons allowing the holder certain foods, sugar flour butter and gas, etc. I was born in 1944 but the family story is while my father was in the service my mother and grandmother were issued ration books but they LOST one. It was a tragedy. 30 odd years later while my parents were moviing away from the family homestead the book was found. I still have it. It is a treasure of history.

[calihartley2010]

@PETALSWORTH Lucky you. I wish I had a piece of history

[Feanorielle]

"Oh I've NEVER seen a real bullet hole!" It's funny that both Poirot and miss Marple have the same method: making themselves look unimportant and silly. Poirot is "just a foreigner", "dandy Frenshman" who "cannot even speak proper English", and miss Marple, well, she would be a very scary murderess.

What a pity Agatha never wrote an novel of them working together. It would have been an instant classic.

[Salamon2]

Agatha purposely said that Poirot, as an egotist, wouldn't like an old English woman telling him that he was wrong.

[Feanorielle]

Yes, and of course she was the one who knew her characters best.

[omaragatha]

@Salamon2 oh god.... that is what i said just be4 i read this

[omaragatha]

@Feanorielle actually agatha christie stated that in her opinion poirot wouldn't like working with marple because he was an egoist... it is given that agatha in later years didn't like poirot and she oftern thought of killing him which she later did... in an awesome way if i may say!!!! i like them both... but i favour marple

[Feanorielle]

Yes I know Dame Agatha said so, and she's the one to know these characters. :) Even so it would be cool to see them together. Even if Poirot would be annoyed by Miss Marple.

[lollipopfop]

@omaragatha But Christie isn't making the shows, so who cares? The script writers of this show do like Poirot, and could do a great job of Marple and Poirot together. I think they prefer Poirot. The Marples, especially the ones with Joan Hicks are not as cool and innovative as the Poirot. The only really cool thing they did here is Hannah. Thats why I like Geraldine as Marple. They were more experimental.

[omaragatha]

@lollipopfop Marple was always my fav. but i never hated Poirot!!! well first when i started reading i was kinda off by him... i thought he thought so much of himself.... but i get what u mean

[nemo1620]

7:15 -- "vegetable marrow" = a type of summer squash

[arnpriorite]

thanks, ever since Poirot retired to grow "the vegetable marrows" I've wondered what they were.

[ILoveTeaDogs]

Miss Marple does pretend to be a silly old woman who is simple minded but in reality is is a 'mask' that she wears. She learns a lot of information this way, either through gossip or when someone else takes her act to be reality and slips up.

[lollipopfop]

Mrs Marple pretends to be silly real well. I like it.