A Miss Marple Nightcap: The Idol House of Astarte by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Have you watched the new Murder on the Orient Express trailer? We have, and we have thoughts. Many of them. We also have a new Miss Marple short story, one that may be a little short on clues, but not on atmosphere. Not that our dear Aunt Jane’s razor-edged bear trap of a ratiocination machine (a.k.a. her mind) would ever be affected by such a silly thing as atmosphere....

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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, Dame Agatha Christie.
0:14.0	I'm Catherine Broba.
0:15.0	And I'm Camper Donovan.
0:16.0	And this week we are tackling another Miss Marple short story
0:21.0	this time. This one is called The Idol House of A Start.
0:27.0	Ooo, Spooky.
0:30.0	Very Scooby-Doo vibe here. It was first published in the Royal magazine, January
0:35.0	1928 and in the US in Detective Story magazine in June of the same year
0:41.2	although under the even more Scooby-Doo title the
0:45.2	solving six and the evil hour. Wow I know very exciting but before we get to
0:52.3	that I just want to bring up with you
0:54.8	Kemper a little trailer that was released the other week that we have not
1:00.4	discussed and you know I think it was a particular address to us and I
1:05.3	may be so bold as to suggest that it's probably of interest to our
1:10.0	listeners I take it you know what I'm talking about.
1:14.0	Could you possibly be talking about the murder on the Orient Express trailer?
1:18.0	Oh, I think I might be.
1:20.0	Yeah, we made some mention, I think think on Twitter and elsewhere about our consternation over Kenneth Browno's mustache.
1:28.0	That's where I'd like to begin.
1:31.0	Really because I would have like to have started with Imagine Dragons but
1:35.2	we can get there. But that's where we end. That is where this trailer ends so we'll end there.
1:41.1	Although we also end with the mustache. Although we also end with it's kind of a double whammy of mustache and Imagine Dragons.
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