A Miss Marple Nightcap: The Companion by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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What better way to say goodbye to 2017 than with a tale of overlooked--hence underestimated--women? And who better to solve such a tale than our very own Miss Jane Marple? Though let's be real: she isn't ours... she is very much her own, thank you very much. Happy New Year to all; we look forward to bringing you much, much more Christie in 2018!

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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,
0:13.8	Dame Maggot to Christie.
0:15.5	I'm Catherine Broback.
0:16.8	And I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:18.6	And this week, Kemper is super excited
0:21.5	because it's two weeks in a row that we will have been doing
0:25.7	his beloved Miss Marple.
0:27.5	Two of the best weeks of my life.
0:29.1	I'm happy for you.
0:31.4	I'm marpling. Now marpling has become a it's kind of like
0:35.3	smurfing you can just use it however you want I think that that's accurate and I do
0:39.6	appreciate that and I do think that I actually send the email that called it marbling.
0:45.0	You did.
0:46.0	So I'm happy to contribute to your joy.
0:51.0	As long time listeners know, I have more complex feelings about Miss Marvel.
0:58.0	Perhaps we'll explore some of those feelings in today's episode about the companion.
1:03.6	The companion.
1:04.6	So our story this week is the companion and it was first published in the Storyteller
1:08.8	magazine in February 1930 under a different title which I'm going to be honest kind of gives the story away.
1:17.6	Yeah the resurrection of Amy Durant. Yeah that's not great. Not great and the companion is ominous. Yeah, I think the
1:26.5	companion is a great title. Yeah, it could be a sexy thriller.
1:30.8	Like, but do you know what I mean? It could either be a thriller starring
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