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🗓️ 19 May 2017
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0:00.0 | Welcome to all about Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking. |
0:12.0 | Every single mystery novel written by the Queen of Prime. |
0:16.0 | Dame Magath the Christie, I'm Catherine Brobeck, |
0:19.0 | and I'm Kemper Donovan. |
0:20.0 | And here we are bringing to you the short story, The Lost Mine, which was first published in |
0:28.0 | The Sketch on November 21st, 1923. |
0:34.7 | So let's get right down to it and talk about the victim. |
0:38.6 | All right, the victim is Wu Ling, |
0:42.3 | the Chinese owner of a silver and lead mine in Burma who is traveling to |
0:47.0 | London for the sale of shares in the mine. |
0:49.9 | He goes missing in advance of the sales meeting that he was supposed to attend and |
0:54.2 | his body is later found in the Thames. Right and it's slightly unclear if he |
1:00.2 | owns the mine or if he just seems to have the papers to it? |
1:06.0 | Right or if he's working for the Chinese conglomerate that actually owns the mine. |
1:11.0 | Like yeah, it's unclear I guess how |
1:13.2 | vaunted of a personage he is within the mining company |
1:17.8 | in China. |
1:18.8 | That are happening here are a little unclear in the story. |
1:21.6 | There's so much more troubling things going on in this story |
1:25.4 | that I didn't focus on that too much. |
1:28.6 | I did because I really get fixated on logistics, |
1:32.0 | but yes yes agreed there are other things happening here |
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