A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: Murder in the Mews by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

We begin the year in style with one of Dame Agatha's leaner puzzle mysteries--especially among those featuring our favorite grandstanding Belgian detective. It's been a while since we've had the pleasure of discussing our dear Papa Poirot in short story form, though this one is a bit super-sized, as it is in fact one of the few novellas within the canon. This year we all get to celebrate ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF CHRISTIE, so you know we have high hopes for 2020. Happy New Year to all!

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single
0:09.5	mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agath Christie, I'm Catherine Brobock.
0:15.0	I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:16.0	And this week we are returning to our beloved friend,
0:21.0	Monsieur Erkekio Poiro. And we're doing a little bit of a change of pace because we are covering a novella.
0:29.4	It happened very often, Kemper.
0:32.4	Tell us what we're covering.
0:34.0	Well, it's interesting because technically we are covering two titles, two for the price of one.
0:38.0	The no, the novella that we are covering is Murder in the Muse. However, as Chrissy did many a time, this is actually a reworked
0:49.0	version of an earlier story. So there is an earlier short story called the market basing mystery that has essentially the
0:58.3	same plot, certainly the same plot puzzle mystery wise.
1:02.3	So for purposes of our podcast it makes no sense to
1:05.6	cover the market-baseding mystery separately from Murder in the Muse. So we will be
1:10.2	making reference to the market-baseding mystery throughout this episode, but we shall
1:17.2	be more squarely covering Murder in the Muse, the novella.
1:21.6	Can you tell us a little bit about the publication history of both of these
1:25.8	titles, Catherine? Yeah, get ready for some long-winded publication history. So the market-based
1:32.4	mystery was published in our old friend the sketch magazine on
1:36.4	October 17th and 1923 then in the US in the underdog and other stories collection
1:42.4	in 1951, so quite sometime later.
1:46.0	Then in the UK in the collection 13 for Luck in 1966,
1:51.0	there you have it for the market basing mystery and then
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