Getting Happy with Parker Pyne: The Pearl of Price by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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It's been a while since we visited the enchanting city of Petra by way of Christie, and this one is definitely a much simpler, slighter puzzle mystery than what we encountered in Appointment with Death. But there is always a healthy amount of intrigue where the wily Parker Pyne is concerned....

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0:00.0	Welcome to all about Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery
0:09.3	novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie.
0:12.7	I'm Ken Pradanaven.
0:13.7	I'm Katherine Broback.
0:15.5	And this week we are back to Katherine's favorite Christie detective.
0:21.2	One harker pine heart specialist.
0:24.9	She is so excited.
0:26.6	No, we are still in our happy place here with these parker pine stories.
0:30.6	A broad, we are enjoying them.
0:33.2	We shall see if our enjoyment continues today with the pearl of price.
0:38.8	Can you tell us a little bit about the publication history?
0:41.1	Katherine Broback.
0:42.2	Yes, I can.
0:43.2	It was first published in Daesh's Parmol in July 1933 together with Death on the Nile
0:51.6	and Oracle Delphi under the title More Arabian Nights of Parker Pine, just in case we didn't
0:58.8	already have enough Arabian Nights of Parker Pine.
1:01.7	And it was titled The Pearl, so very slightly different.
1:06.3	And then it was a later published in November 1934 in the UK by William Collins and Sons
1:13.2	in Parker Pine Investigates.
1:14.9	The pearl is very John Steinbeck, isn't it?
1:17.4	Very much so.
1:18.4	And actually easier to remember than the pearl of price because every time I looked at it,
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