A *Very Special* Holiday Miss Marple Episode: A Christmas Tragedy by Agatha Christie
All About Agatha Christie
Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2017
⏱️ 39 minutes
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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, |
| 0:13.6 | Dame Agathacristy. |
| 0:15.4 | I'm Catherine Broback. |
| 0:16.9 | I'm Kemper Donovan. |
| 0:18.3 | And this week we are tackling one of Kemper's favorite subjects. Ms. Marple. |
| 0:24.0 | Kemper, what are we talking about this week? |
| 0:28.0 | This week we have a Christmas special because our Miss Marple short story is titled a Christmas tragedy so we're going a little |
| 0:36.8 | out of order a little fast and loose here with the 13 problems and we skipped ahead by two |
| 0:41.8 | Catherine tell us when a Christmas tragedy was first published. |
| 0:45.8 | Well, it was first published in January 1930 in Storyteller, |
| 0:50.4 | and it was published under the title The Hat and the Alibi, which follows in the |
| 0:56.5 | tradition of alternate titles that are far more sensible than the title that |
| 1:01.4 | they're published under now, but also kind of a, let's say, give it with a plot? |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, absolutely. The hat and the alibi I think is a bit much, but I will say this for the title. I'm very excited that we were able to do a Christmas special since we do have a |
| 1:16.8 | Christie story we had never covered called a Christmas tragedy, but let's be real honest here, this story has zero to do with Christmas. |
| 1:25.8 | I believe that the word Christmas is mentioned twice within the story. |
| 1:30.2 | Well, it's two days. |
| 1:32.1 | I believe that the crime in question happens two days before Christmas. |
| 1:36.8 | Sure, but there is absolutely nothing anchoring it in Christmas, unlike the adventure of the Christmas pudding, which we did last year, |
| 1:45.0 | which was a delightful Christmas tale. |
| 1:46.5 | I mean, this really could have been at any time of year. |
| 1:50.0 | Well, you know what? |
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