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 am Ken Bredonovan, and in this episode I will be discussing a Guarro short story.

We only have a handful of these left.

The story under discussion today is Wasp's Nest.

With the apostrophe after the S, this is a plural possessive.

We are talking about many wasps here.

This really has nothing to do with anything, but I, of course, automatically thought of death

in the clouds, which also features a wasp, that's not really a spoiler.

Of course that wasp is very much used in the Doctor Who episode that features Agatha

Christie, which Catherine and I discussed on a Patreon episode a while back now.

That was an early Patreon episode.

There is a giant wasp in that episode.

I actually really do think of Christie when I see a wasp or have any reason to think

of a wasp.

I was very pleased by the title of this story.

When it was first published in the UK, its title was the wasps nest, still plural possessive.

We will be getting back to that title with the added into it when we get into the adaptations

that exist for this short story, which is actually a very interesting discussion.

Some were to come on that front, but the wasps nest was first published in the Daily Mail

in November of 1928, and then in the US a few months later, in Detective Story Magazine

in March of 1929, to be precise, it was collected in book form in the US first in 1961's

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