A Miss Marple Nightcap: Motive v. Opportunity by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Are you a fan of the 1990 blockbuster smash-hit film GHOST, starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, and--most importantly--Whoopi Goldberg? If your answer to this question was a resounding "yes!" then this is your dream episode, as we found some startling parallels between the situational dynamics in this Miss Marple short story and that film. If your answer was "huh?" then we have so much to teach you.... Let's get started.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single
0:09.7	mystery novel written by the Queen of, Dame Agatha Christie. I'm
0:14.2	Kember Donovan. I'm Catherine Brobeck. And this week we are reading
0:18.8	Motive versus Opportunity, a Miss Marple short story.
0:23.2	So this one was first published as a short story
0:26.1	in April of 1928 in the Royal magazine,
0:30.4	as all of these stories have been,
0:32.4	and then in the US under a different title this
0:35.3	one not as fun as our last story drip drip this one is called Where's the
0:40.8	Catch and it was published a couple months later in
0:44.0	Detective Story magazine in the US also in 1928. Catherine Broback let's talk
0:50.6	about our victim. Well this isn't a murder story.
0:54.8	So, darn.
0:56.5	Yeah, I think from certain angles,
0:59.3	you could actually argue that everyone in this story
1:01.4	might be a plausible victim.
1:03.6	Perhaps even the reader?
1:05.2	Well, I mean, always possible in some of these Tuesday nightclub stories.
1:10.5	Catherine is not.
1:13.0	but there is a
1:15.0	but there is deceased in this story.
1:18.0	So we can address him.
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