Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and drinking every

single mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agatha Christie. I'm

Kember Donovan. I'm Catherine Brobeck. And this week we are embarking on a new

short story collection of Ag of the Christie's, Catherine Brobeck, what are we discussing?

We are discussing the Red Signal.

First published in The Grand Magazine,

we haven't come across that in a while.

Oh my, our old friend.

I know, June 1924.

Early one.

And very early, and then it was collected in The Hound of Death and other stories in the UK

in October 1933 but and this is interesting not by

Collins crime it was part of a weird coupon promotion.

I love this.

I know, in something called the passing show.

And so they essentially had, for their readers,

you know, a selection of books that were published only for this

initiative. Yeah, apparently it was very popular with the readers and Collins-Fram did publish it, like a, you know, bookstore copy in February 1936.

But that's actually kind of a long time later.

That is definitely a while later and yeah, I actually was interested to hear what the other books were that

readers could choose from so in addition to the Hound of Death there was Jungle

Girl by Edgar Rice Burrows we have talked about him

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