A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: Yellow Iris by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

What's better than a tale of twin poisonings like we had in our last episode? Twin tales of twin poisonings, of course. This short story is substantially similar to Sparkling Cyanide, which we just covered, but it actually came first, and as a precursor to that novel it also has some fascinating differences. Journey with us not only to New York but--in the Suchet adaptation--to Argentina too as we explore all that this Poirot story has to offer.

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0:00.0	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.
0:13.0	I'm Catherine Brobeck.
0:15.0	I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:16.0	And this week we are,
0:18.0	oh, we are back to Poirot and his short stories.
0:22.0	This must make you so happy happy Catherine. It always does. You know how much I love
0:25.8	Papa Poiro, and in this case he's investing a case that I think might seem a little bit
0:30.8	familiar to us, don't you think, Cooper?
0:33.2	Mm, perhaps, perhaps this story we are covering, Yellow Iris, will make listeners think of
0:41.2	the last novel that we covered sparkling cyanide because this is the
0:45.6	original short story that Christie expanded into that very novel isn't it?
0:49.2	Yes it is. So why don't you tell us a little bit about this really odd of publication history of this?
0:57.0	Sure.
0:58.0	So it was apparently first published really weirdly in the Hartford Current in the U.S. in October of 1937 under the title
1:05.2	Case of the Yellow Iris and then subsequently published in the Regatta Mystery
1:10.5	Collection also in the US in 1939 and then it seems not to have been
1:17.1	published as a standalone short story in the UK and then really bizarrely it
1:21.7	wasn't published in book form in the UK until
1:25.1	Problem at Polensse Bay and other stories all the way in 1991 by Harper Collins
1:30.0	and that's actually the copy out of which I read Yellow Iris myself. I have a copy of
1:36.5	Problem at Palense Bay which is this odds and ends collection that they seem to have put together to publish stray titles that hadn't been
1:46.4	published in book form yet. That seems to be the theme of Problem at
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