Communing with Mr. Quin: The Voice in the Dark by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This Harley Quin story has, if not quite everything, then nearly so: a boating catastrophe in the distant past that is neither the Titanic nor the Lusitania; a young Mr. Satterthwaite (!!) snogging (!!!!) a maid (!!!!!!); a man named Bimbo (seriously); and a true rarity for Christie—a bathtub murder. Things always get a little weird in this corner of the Christieverse (the Satterthwerse?), so fasten your seatbelts... (oh yeah--Bette Davis gets a shoutout too).

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery
0:09.7	novel written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agathicristy.
0:13.2	I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:14.2	I'm Captain Brobeck.
0:15.5	And this week we are not covering a novel.
0:18.2	We are back with a person who is becoming our quite dear friend because we've been enjoying these short stories so much,
0:26.5	Mr Harley Quinn. And we of course will also never forget dear Mr. Sadarthwaite as well.
0:32.8	I'm excited.
0:33.8	I think Mr. Sadarthwaite is actually our friend and Mr. Quinn as we've discussed
0:38.2	as a weird enigma in the background.
0:40.3	I mean let's be honest it's just Mr. Sadarthwaite talking to himself.
0:45.0	Right yes so where do we find our friend Mr Sadarthweight this week we should we should note that we're doing a story called The Voice in the Dark, which sounds sinister.
0:57.2	Ooh, very spooky, very on point for the mysterious Mr. Quinn collection.
1:02.4	So The Voice in the Dark Mr Quinn Collection.
1:03.0	So the Voice in the Dark was first published
1:05.2	in the Storyteller magazine in March 1927,
1:08.3	and then it would of course be part of the Mysterious
1:11.3	Mr Quinn Collection published in 1930.
1:16.7	This is actually one that was also technically published first
1:20.6	in the December, 1926, and that would be the start of her 11 day disappearance.
1:34.4	So on the very next day in the USA and Flynn's Weekly, the Voice in the Dark, adds a little
1:38.7	extra spook factor to this story.
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