Getting Happy with Parker Pyne: The Case of the Rich Woman by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Let's just hope for all our sakes we never get another opportunity to go off on a tangent about body-switch comedies. (One never knows in the Christieverse.) In this, the final story in the "Miss Lonelyhearts"-esque section of the Parker Pyne collection, we perhaps see our "heart specialist" at his most dastardly AND brilliant.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery
0:09.5	novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Maggot to Christie.
0:13.0	I'm Catherine Brobeck.
0:14.4	I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:15.7	And this week we are tackling Mr. Parker Pine.
0:20.3	As a long time listeners know, one gee my favorites one of your adversaries if not nemesis
0:28.0	on this podcast man Parker Pine, the worst.
0:33.0	Sorry to get all of you excited, listeners, just to like go right on him and express my unhappiness
0:41.2	with Parker Pine making other people happy.
0:43.7	I think that this story will prove that he is a formidable adversary at the very least.
0:48.6	There's a lot happening in this one.
0:51.6	Shall we say what the title of the story is?
0:54.1	The Case of the Rich Woman.
0:56.1	And it was first published yet again in that US collection in Cosmopolitan in August
1:00.9	1932.
1:01.9	Are you happy if not consult Mr. Parker Pine? It was published
1:06.4	there under the title the rich woman who wanted only to be happy. It doesn't
1:10.3	appear to have been published individually in the UK until it appears in
1:15.6	Parker Pine investigates in November 1934. The listeners can correct us if we're
1:21.4	wrong about that. And interestingly my addition of Parker Pine
1:25.8	Investigate says that this was the first Parker Pine story published in the
1:30.6	USA in that Cosmopolitan series which is interesting because the first two in the newspaper advert. Right, and this one does not. Right.
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