A Miss Marple Nightcap: The Thumb Mark of St. Peter by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Things get a little wild when Miss Jane Marple herself tells the story in this, the final installment of the Tuesday Night Club. We've got carp; we've got haddock; we've got insanity; we've got the power of prayer. We may even have (gasp) true love? Has a romance been blossoming amidst these weekly tales of mayhem and intrigue? Leave it to Miss Marple to ferret it out... and to put it in its place.

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0:00.0	Welcome to all about Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every mystery novel written by the Queen of Prime,
0:13.4	Dame Maggoth Christie.
0:15.3	I'm Catherine Grobeck.
0:16.7	And I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:17.7	And this week we are tackling another Miss Marvel short story
0:21.9	with Thumbmark of St. Peter. And it was first
0:26.1	published in May of 1928 in the Royal magazine and under basically the same name
0:32.4	in July of the same year in Detective Story in the United States
0:37.2	I guess when you have a title like the thumb mark of St. Peter you don't need to
0:42.0	retitle it in the US, unlike the rest of the stories in this collection.
0:46.2	Well, I mean, if you could tell me off the bat what the Mark of St. Peter meant, I guess you had more knowledge than me going into this.
0:56.0	You know, Christie herself and her autobiography did mention that this was a particularly ridiculous
1:01.6	title. Yeah, it's not really her strongest work.
1:06.2	I wouldn't call it catchy by any means.
1:09.5	However, memorable but not catchy. Indeed, let's get to the victim other than all of us because
1:17.4	we have to suffer in this story through the engagement of one Raymond West and one Joyce Lumpreier.
1:27.0	True love will follow you, for it all. Come on, young lover. Are you? For ever?
1:34.0	Come on, young lovers.
1:35.0	It's so beautiful.
1:36.0	I know.
1:37.0	Marords that blessed arrangement, that dream within a dream.
1:45.0	Tragically awful people connecting together.
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