Getting Happy with Parker Pyne: The Gate of Baghdad by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Parker Pyne is still abroad, spreading his statistician-acquired cynical know-how the same way his forebears spread smallpox, this time on a "Pullman coach" across the desert from Damascus to Baghdad in which a sock may or may not have been used to murder someone. Where's Rob Kardashian when you need him? Fortunately, he's right here!

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single
0:10.1	mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime,
0:13.2	Dame Agath Christie, I'm Catherine Broback.
0:15.9	I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:17.0	And this week we are returning to,
0:20.4	and always favorite of mine.
0:23.4	Mr. Parker Fine.
0:25.2	What confidence trick is he playing in this one,
0:27.8	Cooper?
0:28.8	No, no confidence trick.
0:30.4	Parker Pine continues to be abroad. We are at the gate of Baghdad, that is today's
0:37.0	Parker Pine selection, first published in Nash's Paul Mall in June 1933 as at the gate of Baghdad under that previously mentioned
0:46.8	grouping the Arabian Knights of Parker Pine because this is Parker Pine abroad and it
0:52.0	doesn't appear to have been published in the US until it showed up in, of course, Parker Pine investigates in 1934, which did go under the alternate title of Mr Parker Pine Detective in the the US and I think that we neglect to mention
1:06.0	that most times that we refer to the Parker Pine collection. I mean it's so
1:10.5	slightly different it's one of those changes or I'm like why was that
1:14.0	change made what do you get between Parker Pine investigates and Mr Parker Pine
1:17.9	Detective but hey I don't know Parker Pine investigates is also a better title
1:22.1	absolutely well and I mean it you Poiro investigates No, Parker Pine Investigates is also a better title. Absolutely.
1:23.0	Well, and I mean, Poirot investigates,
1:25.0	Parker Pine investigates.
1:27.0	I like an active title, right?
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