A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Dream by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

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🗓️ 21 September 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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It's been a while since we've had the pleasure of dissecting a miniature Poirot mystery puzzle, and this one has almost all the classic Christie clue tropes we've come to love. We also enjoyed revisiting our beloved Captain Hastings and Felicity Lemon, as brought to life on an extremely early episode of the Suchet series. Come and revel with us in the Poirovian splendor of it all.

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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 Prime Dame Agathicristy. I'm Catherine Brobeck. I'm
0:15.2	Kemper Donovan. And this week we are doing a short story with our beloved
0:20.0	Monsieur Paro, it is the dream.
0:23.0	Very exciting.
0:24.0	It's been a while since we've done a Poirot short story, hasn't it?
0:27.6	It has.
0:28.6	We sort of made our way through Poirot investigates and we decided to take some time especially because we've had so many
0:34.9	Poiro novels. Absolutely. But we are doing the dream because we've seen a character in it recently.
0:41.8	We have a Dr. Stilling fleet. We saw a pop up very
0:45.5	tangentially in our last episode, Sad Cypress, so we thought that was an excellent
0:51.6	opportunity to go back to Mons Poiro in short form.
0:55.9	This is actually a good segue into the publication history because this is a rare later
1:00.5	Poiro.
1:01.5	Most of these Poiro short stories were in the 20s,
1:05.0	edging into the early 30s, but this is actually among the latest
1:09.6	of the Poiroz that exist.
1:11.0	So it's not super late within Christie's life. It's 1937, but as far as Poiro's short stories go, that's fairly late.
1:19.3	So this was first published in the US in October 1937 in the Saturday evening post and then in the UK in February 1938 in the Strand
1:28.0	and it was subsequently collected in the adventure of the Christmas pudding and a selection of entrees in the UK in
1:35.0	1960 and then in the US and the regatta mystery and other stories much earlier in
1:39.1	1939. Right, yeah that collection came out very shortly after this story was actually
1:44.3	published which is interesting. Absolutely. All right. Well, let's talk about our
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