A Miss Marple Nightcap: Greenshaw's Folly by Agatha Christie
All About Agatha Christie
Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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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 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 |
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