Getting Happy with Parker Pyne: The Case of the Discontented Husband by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Another doozy from Mr. Parker Pyne! Someone ought to revise that final couplet of Romeo and Juliet, because we’re pretty sure this story has more woe in it, albeit of the marital variety…. Join us in a discussion so far-ranging, it manages to incorporate creations by Cole Porter, Tennessee Williams, and Jerry Springer. (Yup, Jerry Springer. You’ve been warned.)

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0:30.0	mystery novel written by the Queen of Prime,
0:33.0	Dame Agathic the Christie.
0:34.7	I'm Catherine Broback.
0:36.3	And I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:38.1	And this week we are tackling, um, Parker Pine. Catherine's excited.
0:44.0	I'm sorry, was there like a note, no of hesitation there on my end, possibly.
0:49.0	Are we coming down a little bit in your excitement off of and then there were none Catherine.
0:53.4	I mean it would be hard to get more excited.
0:56.6	I think that you know we would have had aneurysms of some kind so you know
1:02.3	perhaps it's time for a breath of short story tell us what
1:07.6	story we're doing this week the case of the discontented husband and perhaps also the discontented Catherine Brobeck.
1:14.7	This one was first published in the US in Cosmo as so many of these were in August 1932.
1:21.6	It was in that same collection that we've discussed before, are you happy, if not, consult
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