And Then There Were 57: The Murder at the Vicarage (I.e. Our First Miss Marple!) by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Introducing… Miss Jane Marple! We could not be more thrilled to have reached, at long last, Dame Agatha’s most celebrated amateur detective. Join us as we endeavor to untangle not just the rather traditional puzzle mystery we find in this novel, but the character of Miss Marple herself. Is she a cynical yet well-meaning old lady with a knack for problem solving, or is there something more devious, even sinister about her powers of observation and inference? Come take a listen before you too fall victim to “sleepy sickness” and turn into a completely different person. (No, seriously: that is a thing in this book. It’s very weird. And not at all a spoiler because it has nothing to do with... anything.)

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0:00.0	Welcome to all about Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single
0:10.2	mystery novel written by the Queen of Prime Dame Agathicristy.
0:14.7	I'm Catherine Brobeck and I'm Camper Donovan and this week we are very excited
0:20.3	very excited. Very excited to introduce the one, the one, the only Miss Marple in the Murder at the
0:29.9	Vichridge. It's first published in October of 1930 by Wait for it. This is also kind of
0:36.2	exciting the Collins Crime Club. The what you say? I say the Collins
0:41.9	Crime Club.
0:43.0	What is that?
0:45.0	Please explain.
0:46.0	Let's talk about the Collins Crime Club.
0:49.0	Yeah, the Collins The Crime Club was a new imprint and it was mostly made as a new imprint for Agathristy because what they were doing essentially was encouraging readers through a monthly newsletter to purchase more mystery novels and Agatha
1:06.7	Christie obviously was a good way in. Christie had been published obviously by Collins but this is the first one under that
1:16.0	imprint and I believe that the entirety of the rest of her mystery novels were
1:21.8	published under the Collins Crime Club in Primiter. It existed up until the early 90s when the editor of it, I think finally retired and they essentially absorbed all of their mystery novels into the sort of general
1:38.1	Harper Collins imprints. That's pretty cool. Let's get to our victim, jump right in.
1:43.0	The victim is the fabulously named Colonel Lucius Protharo,
1:47.5	and he is the local warden for the church,
1:50.0	local magistrate, and he is found in the
1:53.0	the Viggerage study shot in the head.
1:55.0	He's also somewhat deaf and he's married to a much younger woman.
1:59.0	He's kind of a pain.
2:00.0	Such a pain in fact that the vigor himself who is narrating this tale, he is not even necessarily that sad to see him oft.
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