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

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

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.)

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery novel written by The Queen of Crime Dame Agatha Christie. I'm Kemper Donovan. I'm
0:14.8	Catherine Brobeck. And this week we are exploring an Erkeel Poirot short story
0:20.0	and not just any Poiro short story the very first
0:24.3	for a short story ever.
0:25.8	The affair at the victory ball.
0:28.1	This is very exciting.
0:29.2	Very exciting.
0:30.6	It was published after of course the Mysterious
0:34.0	So it's published on March 7th, 1993 in our old front the sketch.
0:39.0	Love the sketch.
0:40.0	Right.
0:41.0	In collection form it gets a little bit weirder. As a long time
0:46.2	listeners know, we covered everything that's in Poiro investigates, which was the
0:51.7	first major Poiro short story collection.
0:55.0	This is not actually published in collection form until much later.
0:58.0	First, it's in the U.S. in 1951, in the underdog and other stories.
1:03.6	And then in the UK, it's not published until Poiro's early cases
1:08.1	all the way in September 1974.
1:10.6	I mean, it's curious that these short stories which are perfectly good
1:14.2	Poiro short stories these early ones collected in that edition weren't published
1:18.9	before I believe that they were published in 1974 because that was when Christie,
1:24.0	understandably, the octogenarian that she was,
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