Communing with Mr. Quin: Harlequin's Lane by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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'Tis time for the final story in the Mysterious Mr. Quin collection, and while *technically* things end with a thud rather than a bang, we were by no means disappointed by what we found in this crazypants tale of love gone SERIOUSLY awry. Oh, Mr. Quin. It's a good thing you're a supernatural being intent on haunting us till the end of days, because at this point we'd be lost without you....

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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.
0:12.4	I'm Kemper Christie. I'm
0:13.7	Catherine Brobeck.
0:14.8	And it's time to visit the mysterious Mr Quinn
0:18.6	and his friend Mr Sadarthwaite.
0:21.4	We are both the big fans of this series at this point in this story
0:25.7	which is the final within the mysterious Mr. Quinn collection.
0:30.0	Catherine Brobeck, what are we discussing and can you give us a little bit of the publication
0:34.2	history on this tale?
0:36.1	Well, as sad as I am, Kemper, and as difficult as this will be, we are in fact discussing the last of the mysterious Mr. Quint collection and it is called
0:46.7	Harlequin's Lane appropriately enough. And it was first published in May 1927 in the Storyteller magazine in the UK.
0:56.0	In August 1927, in Flynn's Weekly in the US,
1:00.0	and of course, in the mysterious Mr. Quinn in April 1930, in the UK by Collins and Sons,
1:07.0	and later in that year in the US by Dodd-made.
1:09.5	In the storyteller, it was the sixth and final of that Magic of Mr. Quinn series.
1:16.5	And as will become obvious, this does feel like a final story in this collection, but I will note and I have noted this before because it warms my heart and I imagine it will many listeners we are not quite done with Mr Quinn after this story because there are two uncollected Mr. Quinn
1:35.4	story. So this does represent an end of sorts but very much in keeping with Mr.
1:41.9	Quinn himself.
1:42.8	Yeah, that he doesn't quite disappear.
1:45.2	I know.
1:45.8	He's here, there, and everywhere at all times.
1:48.5	Let's jump right into this final story
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