And Then There Were 16: Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Books, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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While there is so much we hope will be different about 2021 as compared to 2020, our passion and appetite for Christie do not feature on that long, long list. Happy New Year, dear listeners: we hope you enjoy our leisurely ramble from Meadowbrook to Ramat and back again for this late-career "turducken" of a Christie that we quite enjoyed. Also, how did Kemper manage to shoehorn not one but two clips from Jurassic Park into this episode?! Listen, and be amazed….

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0:22.8	Lorman Bask Reeves.
0:24.5	Stream new episodes every Sunday on Paramount Plus.
0:27.6	Tees and sees apply.
0:28.6	Subscription acquired 18 plus. Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime.
0:42.0	Dame Maggot the Christie, I'm Kember Donovan.
0:45.0	And we are covering some Poirot.
0:50.0	Barely.
0:51.0	I'm just spoiler alert here. There's very little Poiro in this, but
0:56.3	Paro nevertheless. What are we covering, Camper? Cat among the pigeons, I'm very excited, Catherine. Yeah, it's a very good title and I have to say overall an enjoyable read, but we'll get to that.
1:11.8	We will indeed.
1:13.0	Shall I tell us a little bit about the publication history, Catherine?
1:15.4	Please do.
1:16.7	Cat among the pigeons was first serialized in the UK in the weekly magazine, John
1:22.0	Bowl. We've heard of that one before, in six
1:24.1	upwards from September to October 1959. Then in the US a condensed version of
1:31.0	the novel appeared in a single issue in November of 1959 of the
1:35.2	ladies home journal. That must have been quite a condensed version of the novel.
1:39.2	Yeah, it's not actually that short. Yeah, it's not that short of a novel, but I guess also magazines were longer back then, perhaps.
1:46.9	In book form, it was first published in the UK by Collins Crime Club, of course, in November
1:51.5	of 1959, and then in March of 1960,
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