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.

I'm Camper Christie. I'm

Catherine Brabach. And this week a special Christmas themed episode of the

podcast. Happy holidays. The Happy Holidays. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding.

So this one was published at several different moments in time.

It was first published in the Sketch magazine as many of these early Christie Short stories were,

on the 11th of December, 1993.

But then it was published in book form in several variations over the next few decades, and seems to have been fleshed out and had various elements

added to it over the years and we'll get to that as we get into the story.

So with that in mind, let's jump right in and get to the victim.

There's not exactly a murder victim,

although there's not possible murder victim.

I mean, the first victim that we encounter

is a young prince and he has a ruby of incredible value,

not just from a financial standpoint but from a

cultural standpoint and he basically has and you know what we should say

sorry to interrupt you Catherine we should we should say that an alternate title of this story, which I personally

found confusing as we ourselves were trying to find it, is the theft of the Royal Ruby.

I have no idea why you would want to retitle such an awesome title like the adventure of the Christmas

pudding.

To such a boring title is at the end of the Royal Ruby.

Anyway, just FYI.

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