Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single

mystery novel written by The Queen of Crime Day Magath Christie. I'm Catherine

Brobeck and I'm Camper Donovan and this week we are tackling another Miss

Marble short story. It is called the Bloodsaint pavement. It was first published in the Royal magazine in March

1928 and in the US in Detective's Story in June of the same year, although the most

interesting thing about that is that had another title. You know we've talked to

in the past about how the US titles were

both spoilery and had a Scooby-Doo quality, but this one is actually kind of

remarkable not because it has a good be due quality but because it's called a drip drip

That is pretty amazing that this story was called drip drip with exclamation points after the drips.

Yeah. I'm very surprised by that.

Oh, I mean, it's like a really grotesque in some way.

It's like H.P. Lovecraft or something.. Yeah, just have a chitoulu in there and like we'd be all set.

It's like some tales from the crypt. Right. Yeah. There's something particularly macabre about it.

Yeah, yes, it's macabre.

So this is a kind of a first but we can't really say the name of the victim because that actually

spoils this story. So let us just say that the victim is a lady who was found deceased on the Cornish coast.

Again, we are in Cornwall here. Think Pol Dark, think Dumourier, you know, we really get a sense of the wind swept cliff side here and how we also got the

sense which actually really does go into that kind of de Mory vibe that maybe we're talking about a ghost story.

Absolutely.

So to be clear, the narrator of this is Joyce and Pierre.

Right, so we're, you know, again,

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