She Works Hard for the Money: Jane in Search of a Job by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

While we can't pretend this is a special Hallowe’en-themed episode, there is perhaps nothing scarier than being in want of a job…. We were also rather frightened by the flimsiness of this early Christie thriller when it came to its establishing concept, its plot, and its romantic intrigue. So take a listen... if you dare.

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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. Damn I get the Christie.
0:14.0	I'm Catherine Brabek.
0:15.0	And I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:16.0	And this week we are doing a short story.
0:19.0	It is Jane in search of a job.
0:21.0	And Kemper, why don't you tell us a little bit about the publication
0:24.7	history of it?
0:25.7	Sure although I would like to submit a potential alternate title for this one Kemper and
0:31.1	Catherine in search of a plot.
0:32.6	Fair wording to our listeners.
0:36.6	Yes, so Jane in search of a job was first published in the Grand magazine in August of
0:40.7	1924, so this is an early Christie short story, and then in the Listerdale Mystery Collection in June
0:46.7	1934 in the UK, and this is another one of those short stories that does not show up in the US until it's published in the
0:54.2	Golden Ball and other stories in 1971. Yeah nobody was really missing anything just you know.
1:00.8	So yeah I mean you never know what you're going to get in the Listerdale
1:06.0	mystery collection. You never know what you're going to get.
1:09.0	Well it's why it makes it fun, right? It does because there are some gems in there right yeah
1:13.7	definitely this is perhaps not one of the gems but I think it's got some
1:17.6	interesting reference points actually so we'll get to that in a bit
1:20.0	let's talk about our victim Catherine well that would be a spoiler okay let's not talk about our victim, Catherine. Well, that would be a spoiler.
1:24.0	Okay, let's not talk about our victim, Catherine.
1:26.0	Let's talk about our suspect, Catherine.
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