Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agatha Christie.

I'm Kemper Donovan.

I'm Catherine Brobeck.

And this week we are discussing a short story.

It is a Poiroirot short story.

We just couldn't get enough of him. After our third Poiro novel in a row, which was Evil Under the Sun,

we wanted to revisit not only our favorite Belgian detective,

but in some ways that very story with a triangle at roads.

Intriguing.

Catherine Brobeck, can you tell us a little bit about the publication history on this one?

Yes, I can. It was published in the

UK in the Strand in May of 1936 as Paro on the Triangle Outroads.

Interestingly though it was actually published first in the US in February of

1936 in this week magazine which I actually don't know that we've come across

before this week before as a periodical, I does certainly doesn't ring a bell. No. In book form it was

collected in Murder in the Muse and other stories which is a collection of four longer Christie short stories, closer to novella length.

Rhodes is the shortest of the four, although it is quite a bit longer than a lot of the Poiro short stories that we have read and

that collection was published of course by Collins Crime Club in 1937 and then

of course died me in the US, also in 1937,

although it was called Dead Man's Mirror,

which is another story in that collection.

All right, fantastic.

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