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A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Affair at the Victory Ball by Agatha Christie

A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Affair at the Victory Ball by Agatha Christie

FromAll About Agatha Christie


A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Affair at the Victory Ball by Agatha Christie

FromAll About Agatha Christie

ratings:
Length:
39 minutes
Released:
Nov 2, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

How have we not covered Christie’s first published short story yet?! (A Poirot, naturally.) Consider this a master class in some of the fundamental tropes she would go on to use many, many times. Actors, costumes, a temporal deception, even the harlequinade! Add to that a real-world, “ripped-from-the-headlines” analogue, and what more could two Christie podcasters want? (Well, we could always use more Miss Lemon in the Suchet adaptation, but we can't have everything.)
Released:
Nov 2, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

All About Agatha is a podcast all about, well, Agatha. Agatha Christie, of course: the Queen of Crime, a real-life Dame of the British Empire, and author of sixty-six mystery novels that spanned the Twentieth Century, defining a genre. For five years, Catherine Brobeck and Kemper Donovan revisited these novels in publication order, ranking them according to pre-set criteria (plot, character, etc.). Tragically, Catherine Brobeck passed away at the end of 2021. Since then, Kemper has completed the podcast's ranking project, and now contents himself with celebrating the greatness of Christie by attempting to solve the ultimate mystery where she is concerned. Why Christie--and Christie alone--endures as powerfully as she does.