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

mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agatha Christie. I'm Kemper Donovan. I'm Catherine

Brobeck. And this week we are discussing a Miss Marble short story. The

Tuesday Night Club.

The very first Miss Marvel Short Story

published, not in the sketch, but in the Royal magazine

in December of 1927. So this is three years prior to the

appearance of Miss Marple and her first full-length novel which we already

discussed the Murder at the Vicharich. and not something that I knew that she

appeared in short stories before appearing in that first novel so I thought that

was a little interesting. Shall we get into what is going on here?

Because we actually, normally we just start with the victim, but first, due to the

framing here of these stories, we need to do some little splainin.

Yeah, this is also going to impact all of the next Miss Marple short stories, so the Tuesday

Night Club. It is not actually about the case that is a name that describes the

group that gathers in Miss Marple's living room, presumably in St Mary Mead

although it's actually not named in the short story.

Yeah.

But she's playing host, essentially, to her nephew and an array of guests.

And essentially, as a parlor game they decide that each of the

five because they initially leave out Miss Marple because they're all kind of jerks

they're at least a few of them are more jerkish than others but we'll we'll get to that kind of jerks. They're all jerks. They're all jerks.

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