And Then There Were 35: Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Well, the last time we posted such a prolix episode it was to gush over what became our highest ranked novel, And Then There Were None. We will leave it to you, dear listener, to discover whether this beloved Poirot novel managed to unseat the champion and become our new #1. We’ll give you this much: it was close! Enjoy. FLP4EVA (Catherine is currently requesting this vanity plate from the California DMV.)

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single
0:09.5	mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Aga the Christie. I'm
0:14.4	Catherine Brobeck. And this week we are discussing five little pigs.
0:19.7	It is Catherine's week. It might as well be her birthday.
0:24.4	She has been looking forward to this day for so long.
0:27.6	Not gonna lie, everybody knows that.
0:29.8	But you know what, Kemper, we're gonna find out if you also enjoyed it, which I think is maybe more interesting.
0:34.8	My only path here was to be potentially disappointed.
0:38.0	So we're going to find...
0:39.0	This is true. We're going to find out if I am disappointed
0:43.0	and if you are going to stop making fun of me.
0:46.7	Did it live up to the hype for Catherine
0:49.2	and was Kemper's experience significantly different from
0:52.9	Catharines and if so how.
0:55.1	These are the questions we will be seeking out.
0:57.2	Let's just get right into it because we have so much to cover.
1:00.1	Catherine Brobeck, tell us a little bit about the publication history of Five Little pigs.
1:04.0	So it was first published in the US in May 1942 as Murder and Retrospect, and then January
1:10.4	1943 by Collins Crime in the UK is five little pigs.
1:13.8	Let's talk about our victim or perhaps victims.
1:17.2	Our first is Amius Krail, a rather famous painter and Lothario of the 19-teens and 20s who was poisoned to death
1:26.6	16 years ago ostensibly by his wife Caroline who was then convicted of his murder.
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