Get Your Screwball On: The Girl in the Train by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Arts, Books, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

That's right, there's no typo in this episode's title: it's The Girl *IN* the Train, and we wouldn't have it any other way. Well, perhaps we would have a meatier mystery and more three-dimensional characters, but we couldn't help enjoying this simplistic and somewhat fantastical early thriller story.... Think of it as Christie on a busman's holiday, enjoying herself the entire way.

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0:00.0	Welcome to you all about Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single
0:10.6	mystery novel written by the Queen of Prime,
0:13.4	Dame Agath the Christie.
0:15.2	I'm Catherine Brobeck.
0:16.6	And I'm Camper Donovan.
0:17.8	And this week we are tackling a short story,
0:22.3	the girl in the train. You heard that right, it's not the girl on the train.
0:27.0	A little bit of prepositional play here.
0:30.0	Indeed, indeed, but it doesn't involve a girl on a train.
0:34.7	It just slightly less gin and tonic.
0:37.9	How about that?
0:38.5	If we're going to play the prepositional game,
0:40.0	I think I much prefer the girl under the train,
0:43.1	aka Anacharenina.
0:45.6	Har, Har, Har, I will have you know.
0:47.9	I will have you know.
0:48.9	Sorry for spoiling Anacharenina for anyone out there.
0:51.8	Oh, yeah, sorry about that in case you didn't know.
0:54.9	You know, at a certain point,
0:56.1	I feel like a spoiler alert for a book that came out
0:59.2	more than 150 years ago is not warranted.
1:03.4	And for the listeners of this podcast,
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