A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Flock of Geryon & The Apples of Hesperides by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Books, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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This episode completes our review of The Labours of Hercules collection. We also took the opportunity to comment on the somewhat disappointing--but not entirely disastrous--Suchet adaptation.

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0:00.0	Welcome to all about Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single
0:09.2	mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Agath the Christie, I'm Catherine Brobeck.
0:14.7	I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:15.9	And this week, we are, you know, both happy that we're doing this podcast and also sad to say that we have come to the end of the
0:25.4	labors of Hercules. Bitter sweet indeed. As many of you know we already
0:29.8	actually did the very last episode quite some time ago the capture of
0:34.6	Cerberus so we're doing the two stories that go right before that which are what
0:41.0	Kemper the flock of gerrian and the apples of
0:45.0	disparities. Shall we begin with the flock of gerion, Catherine?
0:49.0	Yes, we shall. Tell us a little bit about it.
0:51.0	All right, well, this short story
0:53.4	was first published in the US in this week, in May of 1940,
0:57.2	under the title Weird Monster.
1:00.0	Interesting.
1:01.2	It's like the prequel to Weird Science.
1:03.2	I know.
1:05.0	Then it was published in the Strand in August of the same year, 1940 in the UK.
1:11.2	And then of course it was published in the Labors of Hercules collection, first in the US by
1:16.0	Dodd Meade in 1947 and later that same year also 1947 by Collins Crime Club.
1:23.2	Before we get into our usual breakdown,
1:26.0	I am going to tell us a little story.
1:29.0	This is the last episode
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