Getting Happy with Parker Pyne (and Hercule Poirot?!): The Regatta Mystery by Agatha Christie, with guest co-host Michelle Kazmer

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2022

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

I didn't think I'd care this much about saying farewell to Parker Pyne, heart specialist.... Fortunately, there is a LOT to discuss in this jam-packed (really, pilchard-packed) episode: hot mackerel, plasticine, and corncrakes, for starters. Eternal thanks to Dr. Michelle Kazmer for lending her voice and expertise on this episode. If it isn't the sendoff Parker Pyne deserves, it's because Michelle was way too kind and smart for him. Just saying.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and drinking every single
0:10.3	mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie.
0:15.2	I am Kemper Donovan, and in this episode we will be covering the final Parker Pine short
0:22.5	story, The Maggata Mystery.
0:26.4	I will be joined in the second part of this episode by Michelle Casmer, who is an esteemed
0:34.5	scholar of Agatha Christie.
0:36.9	We had such a fantastic conversation about Parker Pine and Agatha Christie, and I'm so
0:43.2	excited to share it with you, so I just want to dive into my summary of this short story
0:48.8	so that we can get to it.
0:51.2	Starting, but of course, with the publication history.
0:53.8	This is a rather complicated one, and on the one hand, I suppose it's a symptom of the
0:58.2	fact that I now have so many friends in the know who I can consult about the fire points
1:03.2	of publication history.
1:05.0	With great knowledge comes great power, and with great power, great responsibility.
1:10.1	I have to thank both Tony Metawar and John Karin for fielding various questions I had
1:15.0	about the publication history of this short story, because we have an unusual situation
1:19.7	here in that there are two versions of the regata mystery.
1:24.4	One of them features Parker Pine, and the other features a cool poirot.
1:29.5	So the first version of the story to be published is the poirot version.
1:34.0	It appeared in the Edmonton Observer in Canada on the 2nd of May, 1936, and then the next
1:39.8	day in the New York Sunday news.
1:41.9	I do know that it was also published in the Chicago Tribune, per Tony Metawar.
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