Getting Happy with Parker Pyne: Have You Got Everything You Want? by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

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🗓️ 30 March 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

All aboard the... Orient Express?! That's right: heart specialist Parker Pyne is going abroad, and while we've already covered one of his travels in Christie's *other* Death on the Nile, here he untangles a jewel heist (or is it?) aboard that infamous train right around the same time Monsieur Poirot was taking it in the opposite direction. (Maybe one day someone will find an alternate And Then There Were None in the basement at Greenway, in which Pyne finds himself on an island being hunted down by a murderer, only to solve the murderer's problems by means of an elaborate theatrical ruse....)

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and drinking every single
0:09.6	mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agatha Christie. I'm Kemper Donovan. I'm
0:14.7	Catherine Broback. And this week we are back with our good friend Parker Pine
0:21.7	Catherine's favorite detective within the Christie verse.
0:25.8	Yes, our good friend, Parker Pine.
0:29.8	Our friend of me, Detective Parker Pine.
0:31.8	And boy, do we have a case for Catherine this week I have to say when I read this I was very
0:37.8	curious to see what Catherine would make of this story especially it's rather gonzo ending, what are we discussing this week?
0:45.0	We are discussing, have you gut everything you want?
0:49.0	Which that may sound familiar to a lot of listeners, as in have we possibly covered this before, and the
0:56.7	answer is no, we haven't, but it sounds familiar for a pretty good reason. what is that reason temper?
1:04.0	Well the entire series of initial Parker Pine stories was actually published in the U.S. in Cosmopolitan in 1933 under the overall series
1:17.2	title have you got everything you want if not consult Mr Parker Pine. This is kind of called from that initial series title,
1:26.3	which I think we've commented on this before
1:28.5	how it's a slightly different phrase
1:30.7	from what's in the UK versions which is are you happy if not consult
1:35.4	Mr. poker pine of course the US version is have you got everything you want?
1:41.3	I know those grasping Americans. So this story when it was published in the
1:48.2	UK in June of 1933 was of course published under a different title and that was in Nash's Paul Mall magazine
1:55.9	under the title on the Orient Express.
1:58.7	My name is Erkewel Poirot and I'm probably the greatest detective in the world.
2:03.0	Oh, la!
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