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

novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Meggath Christie, I'm Catherine Brobeck.

I'm Kemper Donovan.

And this week we are returning once again

to our beloved Acubaro,

and the Laborers of Hercules, which we've been covering these past short story episodes,

and we have another two this week. So, um,

Kumper, why don't you start us off with our first?

All right, we are beginning with the Stymphalian birds, which was first published in the US in September of 1939 in The Week magazine,

under the title The Volcher Women, and then it was published in the UK in April 1940 in The Strand.

And then of course it was collected in the Laborers of Hercules

collection by Dodd Mead in the US in 1947

and later that same year in the UK by our beloved Collins Crime Club.

Catherine Brobeck, who was the victim in the Stymphalian birds?

I mean, I will tell you the victim, Kemper, but first, wouldn't you like to tell us a little bit about those

demolition birds? Oh my gosh, Catherine, you're so right, I almost forgot that

it's story time. I just, I know that sometimes people think that I'm

poking a little bit of fun at you but it's a little bit in jess but I love I love

our story time temper and I would not deprive our listeners of it. our

time temper and I would not deprive our listeners of it.

Gather ye round for a little story about a man named Hercules.

So in my copy of the Dolar's Book of Greek Myths, this is coming in right

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