A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

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🗓️ 22 March 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This week's pleasing Poirot puzzle is noteworthy for a few reasons: 1) it features Agatha Christie's recitation of the different ways a person might disappear, written five years *before* her own disappearance; 2) the Suchet adaptation features a bit of delightful wordplay involving a parrot; and 3) that same parrot leads to perhaps the greatest Hastings putdown ever recorded. Poor, poor Hastings....

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single
0:10.1	mystery novel written by the Queen of Prime,
0:12.8	Dame Agathichristy.
0:14.4	I'm Catherine Grobeck.
0:15.7	And I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:17.0	And this week, we are talking about the disappearance
0:20.5	of Mr. Davenheim, which was first published in, do you have a guess?
0:25.0	I'm gonna guess, the sketch?
0:28.0	Oh my gosh, you are so genius.
0:31.0	I don't know how you've got that one. It was a first published in the sketch on
0:35.5	March 28th, 1923 thus making it the oldest of the short stories in Poiro investigates.
0:42.2	Our victim is no surprise here. the short stories in Paro Investigates.
0:42.5	Our victim is no surprise here.
0:44.8	Mr. Davenheim himself, the proprietor
0:47.4	of a British banking establishment,
0:49.2	Davenheim and Salman.
0:51.1	And he has gone missing from his country estate, the Cedars in the middle of a Saturday afternoon and for the duration of the story until the rather dramatic and shocking de noouement he remains missing and
1:04.9	possibly dead or kidnapped.
1:07.0	There are only a few suspects here.
1:09.2	We can talk briefly about Mrs. Devgenheim, his wife, Natch, who is not exactly a suspect, but Poirot does make a very big deal about both her exquisite jewel collection and also he's very very nosy
1:26.6	about her bedroom arrangement with her husband he just really really wants to
1:31.9	know whether or not she and her husband share a bedroom.
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