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 Kemper Donovan.

I'm Catherine Brobeck.

And this week we bring you a bit of a holiday themed episode.

Christmas is just around the corner.

So we thought it might be fun to cover one of

Christie's lesser known short stories that perhaps has a bit of a holiday theme that's

arguable. We may be stretching slash shoehorning things a little bit, but what are we covering, Catherine?

We are covering the call of wings.

I know, it sounds intriguing, doesn't it, Kemper?

Certainly not a Christie title that is discussed all that often,

but discuss it we shall.

Could you tell me a little bit about the publication history on this one?

So like a number of the stories in The Hound of Death,

there is not a very clear publication history

of this particular story prior to its inclusion

in that book.

And you know, as a reminder to listeners although you've certainly heard us say this before

That book was first published by Autumn's press in the UK in October 1933 as part of this like coupon giveaway as part of a magazine

relaunch and then it was published by Collins Crime in February of

1936 as a regular bookstore book. This particular story does not seem to show up in the US

until the 1971 publication of the Golden Ball and other stories. Yes, very intriguing.

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