A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Chocolate Box by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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All right, it's time to talk about the *one* case our M. Poirot failed to solve. A better title might be: The One That Got Away, or in the case of the Suchet adaptation, The One *Who* Got Away.... Join us as we discuss television's penchant for spelling out sorrowful/traumatic backstories, and ponder just how big a chocolate can possibly be. We promise you'll never hear the line, "My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates" quite the same way again.

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0:00.0	Welcome to all about Agatha the
0:06.5	Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single
0:09.8	mystery novel written by the Queen of, Dame Agatha Christie. I'm
0:14.7	Catherine Brobeck. First a really quick note to all of our beloved UK
0:20.8	listeners. We know that we're about to have a freewheeling and flippant
0:26.3	podcast but we are recording this right after the events that happened in Manchester.
0:34.4	We just want to put out there that our thoughts are with the UK.
0:38.6	I don't think there are words that can be said,
0:41.7	but please know that you have all of our thoughts with you.
0:46.6	Absolutely.
0:47.6	And on that note, this week we are discussing the chocolate box, the final short story in the American edition of Poirot
0:55.8	investigates. Indeed. Yes, this story was first published in the sketch on May 23
1:01.4	1993 under the title The Clue of the Chocolate Box.
1:05.0	Earth Shattering.
1:06.0	I know.
1:07.0	I know.
1:08.0	The idea of having a clue in an Ag of the Christie story.
1:13.4	But so they're actually, unlike last week where there was a decided dearth of clues in the
1:20.5	Lost Mine, we actually do have clues in the chocolate box here so that's good.
1:24.8	There are a few clues. It's a short story you don't need more than a few clues that's
1:30.1	a few clues is perfect. So let's talk about our victim.
1:34.2	So our victim is Monsieur Po, deprudal.
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