Bringing on the Drama: The Listerdale Mystery by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Arts, Books, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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What's the opposite of a no-drama mama? While you're pondering that, get out your hanky and start dabbing lightly at the corner of your eye because we've got a weepie on our hands. Especially if, like one of our co-hosts, you feel especially passionate about real estate. Come take a stroll on the softer side of Christie; we quite enjoyed it! And we hope you do, too.

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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 Dame Agatha Christie.
0:13.4	I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:14.5	I'm Catherine Brobeck.
0:15.9	And this week we are covering a short story.
0:19.7	This is our first and titular short story within the Listerdale Mystery Collection and that is the
0:28.8	UK collection for those American readers among us, you may know this story within the Golden Ball and other stories collection.
0:39.4	Catherine Brobeck, can you tell us a little bit about the publication history of this one?
0:43.0	Well yes, it was published in the Grand Magazine in December 1925 and then it's, well, the
0:49.6	titular story of the Listerdale mystery which was published in 1934 in the UK, also at the same time as the
0:59.0	Parker Pine collection of short stories, which is interesting.
1:03.0	Not in the Collins Crime Club right?
1:05.0	Yeah I don't think so.
1:07.0	Yeah those two collections not appearing within the crime club.
1:10.0	And then really a little bit strangely it was not published in any kind of
1:16.1	collection form in the US until 1971.
1:19.0	Poor Americans.
1:20.3	Yeah.
1:21.3	I'm deprived of these stories for decades.
1:23.4	Well I suppose you could travel to England and pick up a copy.
1:28.3	Not as easy as these days when you just have to you know type in Amazon.co. UK. That's definitely true or downloaded on your
1:35.4	Kindle. All right let's talk about our victim here. First off is there one? Well
1:40.2	no but for the sake of argument, there is a good deal of suspicion throughout the entire story
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