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All About Agatha Christie

A Miss Marple Nightcap: The Affair at the Bungalow by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

All good things must come to an end. At long last we hear from the final guest at the Bantry dinner party: Jane Helier, actress--and dingbat--extraordinaire. And boy does this one turn out to be a doozy! We've said it before, and we'll say it again. Beware the blue-eyed Janes....

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0:00.0

Welcome to you all about Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single

0:10.2

mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Agath Christie.

0:14.6

I'm Catherine Brobeck and I'm Kemper Donovan.

0:17.2

And this week we are back in Marple land.

0:21.2

Marpleing. We are marpling and we are back at the endless bandry dinner party.

0:28.6

It's almost over folks. I mean we're almost there. And they haven't they haven't cannibalized each

0:34.8

other or you know descended into some sort of twilight zone because clearly they

0:40.1

have been at this dinner party for 50 years.

0:43.4

I think it's safe to say that they're at least onto the port at this point.

0:47.3

I mean, is there enough port in the world?

0:50.1

Possibly not.

0:51.1

Possibly not.

0:52.1

Although it does seem like one of our fine characters maybe has been

0:56.7

hitting the port in order to tell this final story. I gotta say things get a

1:01.1

little a little loose and a little cooke in this final story here.

1:05.2

Definitely do so this is the affair at the bungalow and we have finally reached as our narrator

1:15.7

Miss Jane Hollier. Such a delight. Always a delight. I suppose we should mention that the story was first

1:18.8

published in the Storyteller magazine in May of 1930 and just to be clear about it we do keep on referring to this as the final story

1:26.8

It is the final story within the Dalai Bantry dinner party series which is

1:32.4

Story number 12 series which is the second half basically.

1:35.0

So we had those that first six which were at Shay Marple, those were with the original six.

1:40.0

With not our friend Raymond West.

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