A Run-By Fruiting, Twenties-Style: A Fruitful Sunday by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Arts, Books, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

We've got another light, flirty Christie adventure on our hands here, and while normally we'd say that hijinks ensue, there is so little going on in this short story that perhaps we have only a single hijink? Maybe two? In any case, this is a pleasant enough tale of automotive and fructiferous tomfoolery. Please enjoy, as the year winds down in these final few days of 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, Dame Agatha Christie.
0:12.0	I'm Kemper Christie. I'm
0:13.2	Catherine Broback. And this week we are covering a short story. It is time to
0:18.4	revisit the Listerdale Mystery Collection.
0:21.2	How is intriguing? The specific short story in question is a fruitful Sunday.
0:26.0	Catherine Brobeck, can you tell us a little bit about the publication history of this one?
0:29.3	It was first published on August 11th, 1928 in the Daily Mail.
0:35.0	And then, of course, it was published as part of the Listerdale Mystery Collection
0:39.6	in the UK in June 1934. And as all know many of those stories were not published
0:46.1	until much later in the US all the way in 1971 in the Golden Ball and other stories
0:51.3	and I do feel like I'm sure there are exceptions to this rule but often when we find
0:56.8	a story in the Listerdale Mystery Collection not being published in the US until almost four decades later.
1:05.0	It feels like there's a reason for it.
1:07.0	Uh-oh, are you giving a spoiler about your feelings of this story?
1:10.0	Let's just say this isn't the most robust story.
1:16.0	Are you saying this was not a fruitful read?
1:19.0	Yes, a fruitful Sunday, but perhaps a fruitless read.
1:22.0	Oh dear.
1:24.0	All right, I'm going to talk about our victim because there isn't one.
1:28.0	Because...
1:29.0	Easy for you then to talk about it.
1:30.0	Yes, that's why I've chosen to take on this task. We are not in a
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