#1 OF 430 LISTENER FAV THE PLYMOUTH EXPRESS AFAIR AGATHA CHRISTIE
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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The Plymouth Express Affair is our #1 most listened to Short Story of our 429 stories since we began in 2016.
In this story Hercule Poirot is asked to solve a theft and murder of a woman on the Express train to Plymouth.
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| 0:00.0 | This is your host, John Hagadorn, and welcome to the first installment of our Friday Bestubs at |
| 0:05.5 | 1001 Classic Short Stories and Tales. Brand new for 2024. Agatha Christie leads the pack with the short story, The Plymouth Express. |
| 0:15.7 | In this story, a mining entrepreneur hires Christi's fictional detective Erkel Poirot to solve the |
| 0:22.0 | murder of his daughter aboard the express train to Plymouth. |
| 0:25.0 | This short story was later expanded into a novel called The Blue Train. |
| 0:30.0 | It seems that every time I share an Agathich Christa story, it rises to the top with our listeners, |
| 0:36.0 | even over at 1001 stories for the road. With all the adventures we've done there in long form, |
| 0:41.0 | her story, The Secret Adversary, made it to the top there in the listener |
| 0:45.6 | count, and that one didn't involve Poirot. I remember reading at one point that Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 0:52.3 | got so tired of his fictional character |
| 0:54.4 | Sherlock Holmes that he killed him off and it caused a public outcry so fierce that Doyle |
| 1:00.1 | was forced to pick up his pen and write another collection bringing Holmes back from the chasm, so to speak. |
| 1:06.0 | I'll bet you didn't know that Christie got very tired of the feisty Poirot. |
| 1:11.0 | In 1930, she called him insufferable and in 1960 she felt that |
| 1:17.4 | he was a detestable, bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little creep. |
| 1:23.2 | By then she apparently had forgotten that he was the one that took her to the dance. |
| 1:27.6 | And now the Plymouth Express ranked number one at the best of one thousand one classic short stories entails. |
| 1:37.6 | Hope you enjoy it. The Oh, Welcome back everyone to 1001 classic short stories and tales. This is your host John Hagenhorn. |
| 2:15.0 | Today's story comes from the well-known much-loved mystery writer Agatha Christie |
| 2:20.0 | and features her favorite Belgian detective, Erkew Boaro. |
| 2:24.3 | The story, a young woman has been found dead on a train, |
| 2:27.8 | and it looks like robbery of her jewels is the primary motive. |
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