Communing with Mr. Quin: The Shadow on the Glass by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Harley Quin is ba-ack! But barely; he makes all but a fleeting appearance in this light yet surprisingly robust tale of double homicide rooted in a ghost story dating back to the English Civil War. (If you wanted a refresher on the "Roundheads" versus the "Cavaliers," you are in luck!) So grab some popcorn and watch along with us and Mr. Satterthwaite as the romantic sparks--and bullets--begin to fly....

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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 Crime Dame Agathichristy.
0:15.0	I'm Catherine Brobock and I'm Kemper Donovan and we have a short story this week.
0:21.0	We are revisiting our newish friend the mysterious Mr. Quinn.
0:28.0	Harley Quinn in the house I mean barely in the house. Barely in the house. It's true that Harley Quinn likes to
0:37.3	flit in and then right back out of a story doesn't he? Yes he does. So we're talking about a story called The Shadow on The Glass. It's the second story in that collection, the mysterious Mr. Quinn.
0:49.0	So that collection came out in April 1930, that was in the UK, but this story in particular was published in the Grand magazine in the UK in October of 1924.
1:02.6	Right, and the mysterious Mr. Quinn's, again,
1:05.1	just as a reminder, were not written as a series.
1:09.1	Christie wrote them when she felt like it.
1:11.6	Yeah, they're not in Pararo. She wasn't writing these on
1:14.1	commission in the same way that she was writing a lot of the Pouros in particular
1:19.4	since Pouro was in such demand. No one seemed to be demanding Harley Quinn so much.
1:25.4	Nobody was really craving Mr. Quinn.
1:29.8	He was always a favorite of hers though.
1:31.0	I guess he just didn't take off in the popular
1:33.7	consciousness the way others did but you know as we've discussed I like him.
1:37.4	Maybe it's because spoiler alert he only shows up for like three pages of this story. Well which is why we should
1:44.2	really say there are hardly Quinn stories but there are also Mr. Sadarthwaite
1:47.5	stories because he really is the it's a two-hander. These stories are a
1:52.1	two-hander. Mr. are a two-hander.
1:52.5	Mr. Sadathwaite is there from beginning to end.
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