Getting Happy with Parker Pyne: The Oracle at Delphi by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Do it, Rockapella: Well he glides around the globe from Paris to Damascus. He’s a double-dealing sleuth with a taste for trickery He’ll take you for a ride on a slow boat down the Nile Tell me where in the world is… Parker Pyne, heart specialist? This week he's in Greece, in close proximity to an oracle, no less. You know what that means: a kidnapping, an impersonation, and an attempted jewel heist, of course. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery novel written by The Queen of Crime, Dame Maggot Christi.
0:13.0	I'm Catherine Brobeck.
0:15.0	I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:16.0	And this week we are returning to our,
0:19.0	shall we call them a prima me, Mr Parker Pine?
0:22.0	I think that's what we have called him once or twice.
0:24.7	Mm-hmm. Where are we going in this one, Kemper? We are going to The Oracle at Delphi.
0:31.1	Mm-hmm. That would be the title of this particular short story first
0:36.3	published in the US in Cosmo, Cosmopolitan magazine in April 1933 as part
0:42.2	of that collection of short stories entitled
0:44.6	Have You Got Everything You Want?
0:46.4	If not, consult Mr. Parker Pine.
0:48.7	This collection also included death on the Nile,
0:52.2	the Parker Pine death on the Nile of course, and the House of Shras.
0:56.2	It was published in the UK in July of 1933, just a couple of months later, Nash's Paul Mall and in that magazine it was
1:06.0	within the collection of more Arabian Nights of Parker Pine we have discussed that
1:10.5	collection before and then of course the story was collected as part
1:14.7	of Parker Pine investigates which was published in the UK in November in 1934.
1:20.5	Tell us about our victim. It's Willard Peters, who's an amateur academic type, who's kidnapped and held for ransom.
1:27.0	Kind of a poindexter?
1:29.0	Very much a poindexter.
1:32.0	Like the nerds in revenge of the nerds.
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