A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The King of Clubs by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Books, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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We've got Poirot. We've got Hastings. We've got a prince. A lady of mysterious origins. A frozen-in-time bridge tableau! If you need more, you're probably not listening to the right podcast....

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery
0:09.7	novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie.
0:13.4	I'm Ken Pradanaven.
0:14.8	I'm Katherine Brobeck.
0:16.4	And we have the pleasure of discussing a short story in this episode.
0:20.7	It is a Poirot short story.
0:23.3	What are we discussing today, Katherine?
0:25.0	We are covering the King of Clubs.
0:28.8	Guess where I was first published, Ken Pradanaven.
0:31.6	Well, this is an extremely early Poirot.
0:33.6	So I'm going to hazard a guess that it was first published in the sketch.
0:39.9	It was in March of 1923, so very early.
0:44.1	This is in fact the third Poirot short story published.
0:48.1	It is.
0:48.8	And it was published under the title, The Adventure of the King of Clubs.
0:53.2	Totally different.
0:54.4	I know.
0:55.4	It's so different.
0:57.0	Then it got collected in the US in that book we've talked about before, The Underdog
1:01.5	and other stories in 1951.
1:04.2	And then in both the US and the UK in Poirot's early cases in 1974.
1:09.9	I love an early Poirot, as you all know.
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