Michael Bakewell

Agatha Christie

Hallowe'en Party (BBC Radio Collection)

Ariadne Oliver is a fun character to include in this story; as a mystery writer maybe she’s like a self-insert character. She throws lots of jabs at Poirot for his unnecessary mystery and impractical shoe choices. 😆

Caroline Clutterbuck Kapulkin

“‘My mother said I never should play with the children in the wood,’" quoted Mrs. Oliver. "Well, good-bye. If you like to be mysterious, I suppose you will go on being mysterious. You don't even say what you're going to do next?"

I love Poirot and his moustaches 😂💕

He would not have liked to be a beautiful young man himself, not that there had ever been the least chance of that. There was only one thing about his own appearance which really pleased Hercule Poirot, and that was the profusion of his moustaches, and the way they responded to grooming and treatment and trimming. They were magnificent. He knew of nobody else who had any moustache half as good. 

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