Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery novel written by The Queen of Prime, Day Maggot the Christie.

I'm Catherine Grobeck.

And I'm Kemper Donovan.

And this week, we are doing something a little bit different.

We are, I know exciting we are doing two choice stories two for

the price of one folks. What a deal I know we have a theme, Camper. We do a theme. And that theme is one Countess Vera Rosicoff.

Who is Vera Rosicoff, Catherine? Who we might remember her as someone who holds a very special place in our dear Erkio Poiro's heart.

We may, unfortunately, the one time we have seen her thus far is in one of the two books that shall not be named, unless it's unavoidable, which it is in this case, the big four.

I believe your least favorite still my second to least

favorite I hold strong to the secret of chimneys being my least favorite

as I've said one day when I have nothing else to do I might revisit the secretive chimneys to

evaluate that claim but no big forward definitely is the worst for me but we've also seen or heard of the lovely Candice Rosicov in a number of

the adaptations too.

Yes absolutely and she even gets name checked every now and then in some of the

novels I think she gets name checked in one two buckle my shoe probably because

Christie was writing one of these short stories we're about to discuss

while she was writing that novel but yeah we thought it would be fun you know we are

still on the afterglow of that wonderful holiday, Valentine's Day.

Love is still lingering in the air just a little bit and we thought it would be a lark to focus on the one within the Poiroc canon, not catarine as Kenneth

Brannall would have it but in fact Vera Rosicoff and there are two short stories in which

Vera Rosicoff appears besides the big four and in fact her appearance in the first short story predates her

appearance in the big four so we're going to discuss the first short story and

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