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A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Veiled Lady by Agatha Christie
29 april 2017 · 28 min
Irish brides, Chinese boxes, Dutch murders... this mini-thriller masquerading as a Poirot short story has it all! Except for clues. But what it is lacking in clues it makes up for in FUN, particularly in the Suchet adaptation.... Woe to those who find themselves in a cell block next to "Mad Dog" Poirot. It's only a matter of time before he figures out how to make a shiv out of that mustache comb. Lees meer
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A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Case of the Missing Will by Agatha Christie
22 april 2017 · 29 min
It isn't often we're more critical than adoring of both a Christie story and its adaptation, but that seems to be the case here. I guess you could say where there's a missing will, there's a missing way. (Oof; just because you could say that doesn't mean you should....)We actually had a lot of fun exploring our different issues with each medium here. So put on your best suffragette-white outfit and come spend a spell with "new woman" Violet Marsh. Lees meer
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And Then There Were 57: The Murder at the Vicarage (I.e. Our First Miss Marple!) by Agatha Christie
11 april 2017 · 58 min
Introducing… Miss Jane Marple! We could not be more thrilled to have reached, at long last, Dame Agatha's most celebrated amateur detective. Join us as we endeavor to untangle not just the rather traditional puzzle mystery we find in this novel, but the character of Miss Marple herself. Is she a cynical yet well-meaning old lady with a knack for problem solving, or is there something more devious, even sinister about her powers of observation and inference? Come take a listen before you too fall victim to "sleepy sickness" and turn into a completely different person. (No, seriously: that is a thing in this book. It's very weird. And not at all a spoiler because it has nothing to do with... anything.) Lees meer
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A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman by Agatha Christie
30 maart 2017 · 30 min
This one is a comely little Christie puzzle that is definitely not going to win any awards for ingenuity, but it's pleasant enough to read. And to discuss. Warning: you might not want to sit down to this one with a cup of coffee. Or a rice soufflé. Or any food, really.... (That's not a spoiler: when Hercule Poirot stares at the remains of a meal for as long as he does at the beginning of this story, you know the meal has to be significant.) Lees meer
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A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim by Agatha Christie
22 maart 2017 · 25 min
This week's pleasing Poirot puzzle is noteworthy for a few reasons: 1) it features Agatha Christie's recitation of the different ways a person might disappear, written five years before her own disappearance; 2) the Suchet adaptation features a bit of delightful wordplay involving a parrot; and 3) that same parrot leads to perhaps the greatest Hastings putdown ever recorded. Poor, poor Hastings.... Lees meer
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And Then There Were 58: The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie
17 maart 2017 · 47 min
Join us as we frantically dig our way out of the grand old estate of Chimneys (last visited in The Secret of), like cartoon convicts shoveling our way to freedom.... This is the last of the early Christie thrillers, and if you haven't had your fill of secret societies, happily-ever-afters, or clock masks, you're in luck. There are actually some bright spots here; this may be Christie's most Wodehouse-ian novel yet. Lees meer
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A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Kidnapped Prime Minister by Agatha Christie
8 maart 2017 · 34 min
This one gets pretty political! (Because if there's one thing we're missing these days, it's politics....) However, it's at least OLD politics (also known as history), taken from four discrete periods: 1918(ish), 1923, 1936, and 1990. Join us as we two Americans attempt to speak somewhat intelligently about what's been happening across the pond all these years.... Also, this may in fact be our most Irish episode; even Liam Neeson makes a guest appearance! Lees meer
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The Witness for the Prosecution: An Agatha Christie Classic
1 maart 2017 · 48 min
Back in 1925 Agatha Christie published a short story called "Traitor Hands," which would go on to spawn a successful play and several film adaptations, including the celebrated "Witness for the Prosecution" directed by Billy Wilder, as well as the rather luscious BBC miniseries that aired this past Christmas. Join us as we examine the original story alongside the original play while also taking a closer look at these two adaptations. Wanna kiss me, ducky?! Lees meer
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And Then There Were 59: The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
15 februari 2017 · 51 min
Tell people you're reading a Christie novel set on a train--a Poirot, no less--and they'll almost definitely think you're reading Murder on The Orient Express. And you might be! But you might also be reading The Mystery of the Blue Train, which predates its much more famous sibling by a few years.... Climb aboard with us and traverse not just the French countryside but a hybrid whodunit/thriller centered on murder, adultery, priceless jewels, and a 33-year-old woman who is apparently in the "autumn" of her life (!!). This one definitely was not Christie's favorite, but we found a lot to enjoy here. Lees meer
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Gone Girl: The Notorious Real-Life Disappearance of Agatha Christie
6 februari 2017 · 50 min
We're going true-crime for this one… or is that true-hoax? Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction, and Agatha Christie's real-life disappearance for eleven days in 1926 is the perfect encapsulation of this phenomenon. Join us as we unravel the mystery as best we can, including its impact on our beloved author's work and overall career. There's also a movie from the '70s starring Vanessa Redgrave and Dustin Hoffman that is… interesting. Let's discuss. Lees meer
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A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan by Agatha Christie
27 januari 2017 · 33 min
Put on your thinking cap and solve this bare-bones locked-room logic puzzle with us. Then discard your thinking cap and revel in the theater-filled antics of the much more robust Suchet adaptation. Is "Pearls Before Swine" the best title, EVER, for a play? Undoubtedly. Is Poirot constitutionally capable of taking a proper holiday? Not a chance. Lees meer
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A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb by Agatha Christie
20 januari 2017 · 39 min
Do you believe in spirits? Well then M. Poirot believes in YOU. Especially if you happen to find yourself in the vicinity of a murderer willing to kill FOUR people (so... a serial killer) for the slim possibility of a hastily scribbled note passing muster in a probate court as a legitimate will. Join us on one of Dame Agatha's early, pre-Mallowan, archaeological digs.... Hope the sand and heat don't bother you as much as they do Poirot! Lees meer
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And Then There Were 60: The Big Four by Agatha Christie
9 januari 2017 · 56 min
How do you fit a square peg in a round hole? Awkwardly! In this case the square peg is our beloved M. Poirot, and the round hole is one of Dame Agatha's breezy thrillers from her early years. And yet all is not lost: there is much to love in this episodic novel--and in its adaptation, aired during the final, sepia-tinted season of the Suchet series.... It's 2017 and our resolution is to read as much Christie as possible; let's do this. Lees meer
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A Special HOLIDAY Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie
24 december 2016 · 40 min
What better way to celebrate the holiday season than with a very special Christmas-themed episode? Join Poirot as he partakes of a traditional English Christmas involving pudding, mistletoe, a fresh blanket of snow, a jewel thief, a drugging, and a possibly dead child atop said blanket of snow. You know, the usual.... But really, this one is quite lovely. Enjoy, and happy holidays! Lees meer
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A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Million Dollar Bond Robbery by Agatha Christie
19 december 2016 · 44 min
Toot, toot: all aboard the transatlantic steamer "Olympia," where a robbery has occurred. Or has it? Join us as we pick apart this elegant yet unfairly presented short story, and then revel in the maritime hijinks of the Suchet adaptation.... Hope you're not prone to "mal de mer" like poor Captain Hastings. Oh, Hastings. Lees meer
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And Then There Were 61: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
13 december 2016 · 55 min
Ah, finally, our first real classic. A great, inventive, rule-breaking classic. Before there was "Gone Girl," our inimitable Dame Agatha was playing the long narrative con. Plus, we get Poirot in all his masterful gamesmanship, sly as ever. A certain murderer may have wished that mustachioed Belgian had never retired and gone to grow vegetable marrows, but we (and justice seekers everywhere) are so much the better for his countryside foray. Lees meer
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A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge by Agatha Christie
1 december 2016 · 34 min
We all know getting the flu isn't fun, but if you're Hercule Poirot, this dreaded illness has the extra side-effect of unleashing an un-chaperoned Captain Arthur Hastings on the world as replacement detective.... Let's review the hijinks together, shall we? Lees meer
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And Then There Were 62: The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie
24 november 2016 · 58 min
Are you a reader who loved "The Man in the Brown Suit" but found it sorely lacking in English country homes? Well, fear not, because this week's episode tackles a Christie novel overflowing with rose gardens, secret passageways, and... chimneys. Does the novel also bear a somewhat suspicious similarity to the plot of our last novel? It does! Join us as we explore this similarity, as well as the intricacies of fictional Balkan geopolitics, diamond thievery, and... chimneys... in this, Superintendent Battle's first case. Lees meer
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A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Adventure of the Cheap Flat by Agatha Christie
12 november 2016 · 37 min
Call it what you will: a flat, an apartment, a love-nest, a pad.... A humble abode is hard to find--especially, apparently, if you live in early Twentieth Century London, where a cheap flat just may get you assassinated.... Come discuss this rather silly and shakily constructed short story, which redeems itself with yet another excellent Suchet adaptation. Lees meer
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And Then There Were 63: The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
5 november 2016 · 56 min
This is about as close as an Agatha Christie novel gets to an episode of "The Love Boat," and in some ways it gets kind of close! Climb aboard as we journey from England to South Africa with our plucky heroine Anne Beddingfeld, getting embroiled in murder, diamonds, espionage, and of course romance along the way.... Are there all sorts of troubling implications in this rollicking adventure of both the gender and race relations variety? Of course! Let's try untangling it together. Lees meer
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A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor by Agatha Christie
28 oktober 2016 · 35 min
Our second short story episode! And while there's more than enough tragedy to go around in the original version--including a(n arguably) coerced confession and incredibly poor doctoring skills, the Suchet adaptation may be more aptly titled The Comedy at Marsdon Manor. So many hijinks! Lees meer
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And Then There Were 64: The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
21 oktober 2016 · 49 min
So... there is surprisingly little golf in this Poirot novel, given its title, but there are many, many other things: an unfriendly rivalry between detectives; not one, but two romantic subplots; and lots of "continental" flair. Oh my. Come play with us… not in a creepy-haunted-hotel-twins kind of a way, but in a tumbling-vaudevillian-twins kind of way. I.e., goofy, and dopey, but more fun. Lees meer
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A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Adventure of the Western Star by Agatha Christie
16 oktober 2016 · 47 min
Our first "interstitial" episode between novels. Brush up on your Nineteenth Century detective novels and clichéd Twentieth Century portrayals of Asian culture. Also, take a closer look with us at the televised adaptation: witness the softening of Poirot from page to screen, and some crucial differences in the Poirot/Hastings relationship. Poor Hastings. Lees meer
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And Then There Were 65: The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
7 oktober 2016 · 57 min
Time for Dame Agatha's very first thriller featuring the delightful detective duo Tommy & Tuppence taking on the devious criminal mastermind "Mr. Brown." Was Tuppence modeled at least somewhat on young Agatha herself? Is "hanging a lantern" an appropriate technique to use in a novel? Do American teenagers really know French that well? All these answers... and more! Lees meer
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And Then There Were 66: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie - Part 2
30 september 2016 · 40 min
In which we dive into the delicious world of David Suchet and Hugh Fraser as Poirot and Hastings. (Shout out to Philip Jackson as Inspector Japp, too.) We also introduce you to our ranking system, which involves an extended discussion about some of the more difficult aspects of enjoying Christie's fiction from a Twenty-First Century perspective.... Lees meer
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And Then There Were 66: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie - Part 1
22 september 2016 · 56 min
Episode 1! In which we tackle Agatha Christie's first published novel--and first Poirot novel--The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Deep-dive with us as we try to figure out how Christie crafted this cunning "puzzle mystery," and why one woman would regularly ingest coffee, cocoa, tonic, and sleeping powders all in one night.... Come for the kissing cousins, stay for the discussion of Holmes/Watson homage (a.k.a. fan-fic). Lees meer
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Teaser
15 september 2016 · 4 min
A preview of the upcoming podcast. Also: happy 126th birthday, Dame Agatha! Lees meer
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