Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single

mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Aggot the Christie, I'm Catherine Brobeck, I'm

Kemper Donovan, and this week we are returning once again to my beloved

Erkyo Poiro, and we have more short stories from the Labors of Hercules.

What are we covering this week, Kemper?

We are covering the Eramanthian Boer and the Aijian Stables.

Do you want to tell us a little bit about the first story because we're going to do the mid-order?

Absolutely. I will start with the publication history of the Eramanthe Boer. It was first published in The Strand, in the UK, in February 1940, and subsequently in the US the same year in May, under a different title, a pretty fabulous title murder mountain.

Mm. A murder mountain.

Other than the fact that that reminds me of the big four and potentially destination unknown, I like it.

It reminds me of an episode of Frazier that I have referenced in the past about murdering

where they do a like 1930s radio play and it goes terribly awry.

Good evening.

This is Frazier Crane. Welcome to KACL's recreation of the original

Mystery Theatre. In all my years at the yard, I doubt I'd ever seen a fowler night.

Then that on which I doubt I'd ever seen a fowler night,

then that on which I was called out to investigate a double murder at the old inn on the Moors.

We've definitely clipped heavily from that episode in past episodes. Yes.

Yeah, I mean I might be a one-trick pony on my references, Kember.

It's quite a trick so that pony deserves to be referred back to over and over again.

So yes, then of course this story was collected in the labors of Hercules in the U.S. by Dodd Mead in 1947

and subsequently the same year by Collins Crime Club in the UK.

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