Getting Happy with Parker Pyne: Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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That's right; do not adjust your screens; before she wrote her much more famous Death on the Nile, Christie wrote a short story featuring her "heart specialist" Parker Pyne on a trip up that same (in)famous river.... Join us as we plumb the depths of this neat little puzzle mystery, which features a glancing reference to a substance these two American readers found most intriguing of all: Bovril.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single
0:09.6	mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agatha Christie. I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:14.3	I'm Catherine Broback. And this week we are doing death on the Nile.
0:19.6	Wait what is that you say Kem Cumber? Have we not already done? Death on the Nile?
0:26.0	I'm really just looking for an excuse to insert that record scratch sound effect.
0:30.0	Yes, we are doing Death on the Nile, not of course the novel that we covered a few episodes ago, but a less famous, considerably less famous, death on the Nile of Agathicristies, a Parker Pine short story, which came about a couple of years before the novel,
0:47.5	which I think is a perfect segue into the publication history.
0:50.4	Take it away, Catherine.
0:52.1	So it was first published in Cosmopolitan in the US in April
0:56.6	1933 with three other stories.
0:59.6	The collection was called Have You Got Everything You Want,
1:02.2	if not consult Mr.
1:03.4	Parker Pine which is a slightly different take than are you happy and I feel like a
1:08.3	very American take isn't it? Do you have all the materialistic things that you
1:12.4	desire in your life you greedy American?
1:15.1	No, then consult Parker Pond.
1:17.1	Right.
1:18.1	It was subsequently published in Nash's Palm Hall in the UK in July 1933.
1:25.0	All right, so let's jump right in and get to our victim
1:28.0	who is a lady Ariadne, not Oliver, but Grell, who knew there was another Ariadne within the Christie
1:34.7	verse a 48 year old overbearing nervous mess of a woman who is constantly
1:40.5	suffering from one made up ailment or another.
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