Manic Pixie Monster a.k.a. Never Go to the Second Location: The Golden Ball by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

We have been here before, and we will almost certainly be here again. It's time for another kookily "romantic" story in which two young things banter their little hearts out to what seems to be to them--if not us--a satisfying conclusion. It's Listerdale Mystery time, and good God but this one hinges on a piece of fruit, too.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and drinking every single mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime,
0:12.0	Dame Agatha Christie.
0:13.8	I'm Camper Donovan.
0:14.9	I'm Catherine Brobeck.
0:16.2	And this week, we are grinding our way
0:20.8	through the Listerdale Mystery Collection once more we are...
0:25.0	You can tell Kemper's enthusiasm right now.
0:28.0	Could you tell by my choice of verb there that perhaps this is not my favorite among
0:35.0	the Listerdale Mystery Collection but it is written by Agatha Christie so we are
0:39.6	committed to covering it so let's just get right into it, the golden ball.
0:43.7	Catherine Brobeck, tell us a little bit about the publication history on this one.
0:47.0	It's first published in the Daily Mail on August 5, 1929 under the title
0:51.8	Playing the Innocent, which is a really weird title for this story
0:55.9	frankly but we can come back to that and then of course it was published in Listerdale
1:01.9	Mystery Collection in was published in the Listerdale Mystery Collection in June
1:03.8	1934 in the UK and then as the titular story in the Golden Ball and other
1:09.2	stories all the way in 1971 in the US.
1:13.0	All right, so let's just jump right into our breakdown here and we will begin as we always do
1:18.6	with the victim except that there really isn't one. Yes, we are in a fun, flirty Ag of the Christie adventure story
1:27.9	where everyone seems to win and live tiresome tirelessly ever after.
1:34.0	Perhaps we can say that if there is one who has to be singled out as a victim,
1:40.0	it is Ephraim Ledbetter, who is a wealthy employer with high standards for his nephew who he has
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