#but with Hercule Poirot as well

[snirtsnirkarts]

GUY I HAVE INTERNET

Lemme explain! We moved and didn’t have internet and it kept being rescheduled to turn it back on and for some reason because of that Tumblr would NOT let me post anything.

Then when I went to wifi areas I’d forget to post. Although we did just get it on one of my devices it still won’t let me post for whatever reason.

BUT I DID POST A NEW CHAPTER AND WE FINALLY GO AND MEET TO THE HARTWIN FAMILY RESIDENCE!!! Yes I may have posted that chapter in a McDonald’s. But I didn’t really have any other options(I did and this is a lie, I’ve just been to busy to go any other place, but I was hanging out with a sibling so)

ANYWHO WE ARE SO BACK I AM CURRENTLY EDITING THE NEXT CHAPTER WHICH WILL BE THE SHOUT OUTS CHAPTER LET’S GO

[poirott]

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT 1x06 "Triangle at Rhodes"

[pflanzidiezimmerpflanze]

it had to be done

[fistfightinganxietyandlosing]

All fictional detectives are on the spectrum. It's like a requirement at this point

[queeringclassiclit]

Hercule Poirot

from the Poirot series by Agatha Christie

[automatonwithautonomy]

I have decided it is physically impossible to be a detective and not aspec. Oh you solve crime? You like mystery?? BAM! Aspec.

[krchar]

ABC Murders

[shiplessoceans]

If you like Murder She Wrote, Columbo, Hercule Poirot mysteries and Knives Out/Glass onion?

Go watch Poker Face.

Natasha Lyonne as a human lie detector stumbling into random murders and calling bullshit til she catches the killer.

It's just so much damn fun!

[rovermcfly]

rip hercule poirot, you would've loved signing your texts with xoxo

[atlitudes]

sherlock and co really has me wondering why there isn’t a big modern poirot adaptation (as in taking place in modern day ik about the movies). it’d have to be on the shorter side since only a few are public domain but like. give this guy a cell phone man.

[lazynoodlepuff]

Oh my god I can't belive that Hasting and inspector Japp having to share a room where there is only one bed is canon

I'm loosing it it's a real line in ep 8 "The Incredible Theft"

[rain-shoshana]

Every day I think about these lesbians from Agatha Christie’s Poirot season 1 episode 5 The Third Floor Flat. I hope they lived happily ever after.

Also the way Poirot and Hastings look at each other on the landing?!?!? It doesn’t get better than that.

[poirott]

A HAUNTING IN VENICE (2023), dir. Kenneth Branagh

[pflanzidiezimmerpflanze]

[cantsayidont]

Video Killed the Radio Star

If you don't already feel sufficiently alienated from the culture of your generation, consider getting into old time radio. It's pretty easy to do: Radio was mainstream media from the 1930s well into the 1950s, and it hung on for quite a while after it started losing ground to television. There's a huge amount of programming in various genres, and a surprising amount of it survives; there was a cottage industry in OTR cassettes and CDs for many years, a lot of shows can be found in MP3 format without much effort, and some of it pops up regularly on streaming platforms.

The easiest way to get into it is if you're already got a fondness for some older Hollywood star: If they were a movie star between 1930 and 1960, there's a good chance they guest-starred in various radio shows, and they might even have had their own show for a while. For instance, do you like Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall? Around 1950, they had their own syndicated radio adventure series, BOLD VENTURE, which was essentially an extended riff on their characters in the 1944 film version of TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT. Orson Welles, of course, was a big radio star, playing the lead on THE SHADOW in 1937–38 and then bringing his Mercury Theatre company to a number of different one-hour and half-hour radio series. Vincent Price starred for several seasons as Leslie Charteris's Simon Templar on THE SAINT. And almost everyone who was anyone showed up now and again on SUSPENSE or LUX RADIO THEATRE (which produced all-star one-hour adaptations of popular movies). If you're a Superman or Sherlock Holmes fan, the radio versions of those characters are a must — Holmes was a perennial presence on English-language radio for decades.

If you want something more modern, the British kept producing generally high-quality radio dramas in surprising volume until relatively recently, including a range of both adaptations and originals. Unlike American radio, the survival rate for older British programs from the '40s and '50s is poor, but the BBC has continued periodically airing its better material from the '70s through the '00s, a lot of which has been offered on cassette and CD. For instance, there were excellent BBC radio series dramatizing the Wodehouse Jeeves and Wooster stories (with Michael Hordern and Richard Briers); Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey series (with Ian Carmichael); and Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mysteries (with John Moffat), along with standalone plays on programs like SATURDAY-NIGHT THEATRE. The big limitation with British radio dramas is that the number of British radio actors who can do convincing American accents is not high (and is definitely lower than the number who mistakenly think they can), and the availability of American actors who know how to act for radio is clearly even more limited, which can become a grating problem when dramatizing American material.

One of the reasons that listening to older (and/or British) radio shows will contribute to your cultural alienation is that it will make a lot of modern dramatic podcast series and audio dramatizations excruciating, because it will reveal to you how bad a lot of modern audio dramatists and performers are at this once commonplace art. (If you are or are contemplating doing a dramatic podcast or audio drama, please, for the love of dog, make a close study of radio shows created before you were born, and diversify enough to recognize the mediocrity of hacks like Dirk Maggs, who's been stinking up audio drama on two continents for four decades now.)

[mzannthropy]

How do Agatha Christie readers feel about Taken at the Flood?