Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime,

Dame Agatha Christie, I'm Kemper Donovan. I'm Catherine Brobeck. by the Queen of Crime, Dame Magg of the Christie.

I'm Kemberdonovan.

I'm Catherine Brabak.

And this week we are not covering a novel.

We are discussing yet another short story

before our big two-part and then there were none series.

Our short story is the manhood of Edward Robinson.

An unfortunate title if ever there were?

It's a little bit of an unfortunate title.

I think it might have been more appropriate if his name was Richard Johnson, say, but it's not.

It's Edward Robinson. And that's what we have.

So Catherine Brobeck, could you tell us a little bit about the publication history on this one?

I can.

It was first published in Grand Magazine in December of

1924 under the title The Day of His Dreams, which if you combine that with the

current title does not really help matters. I'm going to be really honest with everybody

up front. It seems like we are being very juvenile, but then you read the story and not that off base here.

Yeah, perhaps the day of his dreams was the better title just in that it was

safer than the manhood of Edward Robinson. I wonder if it was as dangerous of a double

entendre back then. I suppose not. Clearly it wasn't. Let's get into it. Our victim here is possibly women in general because there is there

is certainly a lot of what struck us as misogyny within this story. This is very much a story that is stuck in

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