A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

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🗓️ 30 March 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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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.)

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0:00.0	And
0:05.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery
0:13.4	novel written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agatha Christie. I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:17.6	I'm Catherine Broback. And this week we are discussing another Christie short story, another Poiro from the Poiro investigates collection,
0:26.2	the adventure of the Italian nobleman.
0:29.5	First published in the sketch on the 24th of October,
0:33.1	in 1923.
0:35.8	So let's just get right into it.
0:37.2	Our victim is a gentleman named Count Foscatini,
0:41.1	who is a patient of one Dr. Hawker and a resident of Regent's court and the
0:46.2	count apparently calls Hawker as he lays dying only to be found shortly
0:50.9	thereafter already deceased from a hard whack over the head.
0:55.6	And the people who are discovering the body are not just Hawker, but our old friends, Poiro and Hastings.
1:02.1	Who are the suspects who may have whacked this gentleman over the head?
1:06.0	Well, the primary suspect is one,
1:10.0	Senior Paulo Ascagno. Aiscano. Aiscano. Senior Apollo A Asugano.
1:13.4	Ascagno.
1:15.2	He's an Italian diplomat and he was seen at the Count's flat the day before where he was apparently involved in a very
1:26.1	terse conversation seemingly involving money with the cat.
1:30.3	Right, so our next suspect is a young Italian man who was with Senior
1:34.8	Asconio at the Counts Flat during that TURS conversation and who has now
1:39.5	vanished. We don't really ever learn more about him either.
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