A Miss Marple Nightcap: Strange Jest by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

You'd be forgiven for mistaking the bucolic English country estate where this story is set for the Borscht Belt of upstate New York, because this Miss Marple yarn (see what we did there?) is pretty darn funny. Poor Edward and Charmian had no idea what they were in for when Jane Helier (!!) recommended they consult with the very best of amateur sleuths in the attempt to recover a modern-day buried treasure. Take cover, because the hijinks are flying fast!

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single
0:10.1	mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime,
0:13.2	Dame Agathichristy.
0:15.0	I'm Cuthard Brobeck.
0:17.0	And this week we are going back
0:20.4	to something that will make Kemper very happy and hopefully a lot of our
0:24.6	listeners. We are going once again a marbling. A marbling we go. What are we
0:31.6	doing this week, Cumber?
0:33.2	We are covering a short story entitled Strange Jest.
0:37.8	Excellent title.
0:38.9	Very good title.
0:40.0	I was very excited to hear it.
0:42.6	Tell us a little bit about what the publication history is.
0:45.6	Sure.
0:46.3	This one was first published in This Week in the US
0:50.3	in November 1941, and then a whole three years later in the UK in July of
0:56.2	1944 in the Strand under the title a case of buried a treasure which is apt not as good of a title, but that is descriptive, certainly.
1:06.4	And apparently this is the last story that Christie wrote for The Strand, and many of the stories that
1:10.3	we've covered thus far on the podcast were originally published in the Strand so that's a big deal.
1:16.0	It was then collected in 1950 in book form by Doddmead in the US
1:20.0	in three blind mice and other stories which readers obviously know most for that
1:26.3	titular story which of course is in fact the Mouse Trap you know more famously
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