Getting Happy with Parker Pyne: The House at Shiraz by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

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🗓️ 1 June 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Bar the gates, because Parker Pyne is still abroad, flitting here, there, and everywhere in the Middle East. This time we find him in Persia (i.e., Iran)--specifically, the lovely city of Shiraz. But not so lovely as to prevent it from harboring one who is some combination of murderer, lunatic, and/or impostor. Let's sort it out together before our peripatetic PI jets off someplace else for further adventures.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single
0:09.1	mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agatha Christie.
0:12.4	I'm Kemper Donovan. I'm Catherine Brobeck. the Are you ready? Do you know what? In the earlier versions of these, I was never ready.
0:27.0	But in this sort of subset of Parker Pine, I feel slightly better about covering him.
0:34.4	I feel like yeah we've we've eased into a little bit of a more cordial relationship with Parker Pine
0:41.2	in these traveling stories?
0:43.0	Possibly I have Stockholm Syndrome.
0:45.0	That too.
0:47.6	Since we know that he's kind of had that effect on some of his victims
0:51.0	in stories past.
0:52.0	Oh, at least one very directly.
0:55.7	So.
0:56.7	The case of the rich woman?
0:57.7	Yeah, yeah.
0:59.2	So I might just be very gaslit right now.
1:03.7	The case of the close reader.
1:05.6	Maybe.
1:07.4	In any case, what is the title of the story
1:11.0	we are discussing today?
1:12.1	It's called The House at Shiraz,
1:14.9	which sounds pretty intriguing, right?
1:17.3	It does.
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