And Then There Were 31: Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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We both relished this glittering tale of twin poisonings set within a posh circle at a swanky London restaurant, though it comes with a few problems/weaknesses all its own. Come geek out with us over the intricacies of cyanide, the later career of Nancy Marchand, and so much more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to all about Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and drinking every
0:08.9	single mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agatha Christie.
0:12.9	I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:14.0	I'm Catherine Brobeck.
0:15.2	And this week we are discussing a novel.
0:17.3	It is time for sparkling cyanide.
0:21.3	Ooh, it's such a sexy title.
0:23.2	I love this title and I believe that is a perfect segue, Catherine, into the publication
0:28.8	history because I have to say this is one of those rare times I not only love the UK title. The US title is pretty good as well. You know, it's not terrible. So this was first published actually in the US in February of 1945 by of course Dodd a Don Mead
0:43.0	it was titled Remembered Death.
0:45.0	And so when it was published in
0:48.0	December 1945 by of course,
0:51.0	Collins Crime in the UK,
0:52.0	it was under Christie's actual title, which was
0:55.9	sparkling cyanide.
0:56.9	Yeah, and this novel is technically an expansion on a short story called Yellow
1:02.0	Iris, which was published in 1937, and that was actually
1:06.4	a Poiroiro short story, and this is not a Poiro novel.
1:10.9	We are actually going to save our discussion of Yellow Iris and the
1:15.4	adaptation of Yellow Iris by our dear David Sousche for our next episode, which will
1:20.2	of course be a short story episode. So just keep that in the back of your heads.
1:24.4	It turns out that this was adapted,
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