Communing with Mr. Quin: The Soul of the Croupier by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Are you ready for an oh-so-European tale of despair, betrayal, and misplaced pride? Would it help if you listened to some Edith Piaf while we told it to you? Okay, then. Time to sit for another soulful spell with Mr. Harley Quin and his dessicated sidekick, Mr. Satterthwaite, this time on the shores of Monte Carlo. Bon voyage!

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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, I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:14.3	I'm Catherine Brobeck.
0:16.1	And this week we are returning to our old friend Harley Quinn and our even older friend
0:22.4	Mr. Sadarthwaite with a mysterious Mr. Quinn short story,
0:27.0	the soul of the croupier.
0:29.0	Intriguing sounding.
0:31.0	Yeah, Catherine Brobeck, tell us a little bit about the publication of
0:33.5	Well, it was first published in January 1927 in the Storyteller magazine
0:38.8	that's in the UK. Interestingly, it was published first in the US in November of
0:44.4	1926 and something called Lind Weekly. And then of course it's part of the
0:49.5	mysterious Mr. Quinn Collection in April 1930.
0:53.0	Interesting.
0:54.0	I mean I always think the really interesting thing about these stories is the relatively
0:57.3	short turnaround time from the time they were published in the magazines to the time they
1:02.2	were published in a collection. Yeah, we have those in the magazines to the time they were published in a collection.
1:03.6	Yeah, we have those in the Parker Pine stories as well, I feel like.
1:07.0	And we also have a lot of back and forth in terms of where they were published first in the US or the UK and they're always very
1:15.0	close to each other it seems and just heavily serialized on both sides of the
1:21.0	pond. Right and I believe that like the Parker Pines
1:23.8	were published in groupings,
1:26.1	I think the storyteller published at least consecutively
1:30.4	a number of these Mr. Quinn stories.
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