meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
All About Agatha Christie

A Miss Marple Nightcap: Greenshaw's Folly by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Books, Arts

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

It was a pleasure to revisit our dear old Aunt Jane in short story form... especially in a mystery like this one, which features deceptive appearances, gruesome violence, and a particularly snooty Raymond West (which as we all know by now is *really* saying something).

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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 Mageth the Christie.

0:13.1

I'm Catherine Brobeck.

0:14.3

I'm Kimberly Donovan.

0:15.4

And this week, we're following up on what we promised

0:19.6

in our previous episode, which is that we are covering a short story that is very much

0:26.6

related in some ways to Dead Man's Folly except with a very different detective.

0:31.7

Would you like to tell us what we're talking about, Kemper?

0:35.2

I would.

0:35.9

We are covering Green Shaw's folly,

0:39.7

a Miss Marple short story.

0:41.5

If anyone has not listened to the Dead Man's Folly episode in which I went through the somewhat tortuous

0:49.3

publication history of that

0:55.0

the novel, there is a weird little connection between this short story and that novel because

0:57.0

Christie wrote a novella version of Dead Man's Folly

1:01.0

that she was not able to sell, Novellas are hard to sell.

1:05.3

That Novella was supposed to fund a church-stained glass project at Christie's local church.

1:11.0

She was a very religious person.

1:12.5

She observed regularly, so she wanted to give back to her church.

1:16.2

And this was-

1:17.2

Do we know Kemper if that a stained glass window was actually installed?

1:23.8

I don't know for sure.

1:25.0

I assume it was because this short story is what she supplied in place of the

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.