A Miss Marple Nightcap: Death by Drowning by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

At long last we complete our baker's dozen of stories within the Thirteen Problems, Christie's first collection of Miss Marple short stories. Get ready to go DEEP on issues of class--not quite as deep as our poor, pregnant (!) victim does in a river snaking through the woods of St. Mary Mead, but deep nonetheless. As we've come to learn by now, nothing is off-limits where Miss Marple is concerned.

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0:00.0	Welcome to all about Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single
0:10.2	mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime,
0:13.3	Dame Agatha Christie.
0:15.0	I'm Catherine Brobeck.
0:16.4	And I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:17.4	And guess what we are doing this week, Kemper?
0:22.0	There's no guessing needed because I have been so excited for this
0:26.2	episode for so long now. We are doing Miss Marple. Yay! We've been trying...
0:33.0	That wasn't very convincing, Catherine.
0:35.0	Oh, hey, it was me trying to be convincing.
0:38.1	You always knew that dark marble would rise again, and risen she has.
0:42.1	Well, listen, I was excited for the reappearance of
0:45.6	Dark Marple. We haven't seen her in a while because we've been doling these
0:50.0	stories out because we don't have very many of them before we got to the next novel.
0:55.0	The body in the library, it's still a ways off.
0:57.4	Yep. So why don't you tell us a little bit about the publication history of this, Kemper.
1:04.0	All righty.
1:04.8	Death by Drowning was first published in Nash's Paul Mall magazine in November 1931.
1:11.0	This is the last story in the 13 Problems Collection.
1:15.0	It's a little bit of the Outlier Story, which is why we were able to leave it for so long.
1:20.0	Of course, the first six stories come in a set. Those are the ones that are centered around
1:26.0	the Tuesday Night Club, Shay Marple. Then we have the second set of six, is centered on the never ending Bantry dinner
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