Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery novel written by The Queen of Crime,

Dame Magathicristy.

I'm Catherine Brobeck.

I'm Kemper Donovan.

And this week, because it is the spookiest time of year,

we are doing a double header of short stories in celebration of Halloween.

Moo-hoo-hoo. In our first year I remember we did a double-headed Halloween episode one of my favorite of our

episodes when we covered Philamel Cottage and the Dress Dall and this year we are covering two equally I would say spooky stories the first

is the last seance and the second is the lamp so let's focus on the last seance first, counterintuitively.

Catherine Brobeck, can you tell us a little bit

about the publication history?

So, yeah, it was first published in the US in November

in 1926 and something called ghost stories under the title the woman who

stole a ghost and then in March of 19 title The Stolen Ghost.

And then in March of 1927 in the UK

in The Sovereign magazine under the title The Stolen Ghost.

And then it was published in book form in The Hound of Death collection in 1933.

And we've mentioned the weird publication history of this before, but to recap, in case anyone

missed it, the passing show, which was a magazine, had been doing some sort of spectacular relaunch, resubscriber event and had a coupon campaign where for government coupons and several shillings,

readers could choose from six books.

And they were published for the magazine's readers by Adams, which was the magazine's publisher.

Then it appeared in booksellers in February of 1936 published by Christie's normal publisher,

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