Tea with Tommy & Tuppence: Finessing The King by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

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🗓️ 6 October 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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What happens when our adorably mischievous young married duo T&T get up to no good at a '20s masquerade? Someone gets stabbed through the heart, of course! Nor do the horror and hijinks end there, not even close.... For one thing, we've got both 50 Cent and Andrew Lloyd Webber in this episode; what could possibly go wrong?

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0:00.0	Welcome to you all about Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every
0:10.3	single mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agatha Christie.
0:15.9	I am Catherine Brobeck and I am Camper Donovan. And this week we are tackling some more Tommy and Tuppins.
0:23.0	Tommy and Tuppins.
0:25.0	What are we tackling this week, Kemper?
0:27.0	This week is a story called Finessing the King,
0:31.0	although it actually is a two-parter because it's based on two
0:36.4	chapters within the Partners in Crime Collection. The second part is the Gentleman Dressed in Newspaper.
0:45.0	And these two chapters were published in The Sketch, of course,
0:50.0	on, of course, on October 8, 1924 as one story, the aforementioned
0:54.8	finessing the king, which is a pretty good title actually.
0:57.8	It is.
0:58.8	It's intriguing.
0:59.8	It's a bridge term also, I believe, right?
1:02.2	Okay, so let's talk about our victim. So the victim is a lady
1:05.9	Maravile and she was stabbed in the chest with her own jeweled dagger while at a Chelsea nightclub, while dressed in a
1:15.0	mask and a Queen of Hearts costume. Sounds like a normal Friday night. So let's talk
1:21.5	about our suspects. The first suspect, interestingly enough, is Lady Mary Vale herself because it is a theory
1:27.0	that is put forth quite seriously in this story that perhaps she committed suicide with her own dagger.
1:34.0	It's a possibility, but another possibility is that it might have been Captain Bingo Hale.
1:41.0	He's a dear friend of the lady as well as her husband and it's bingo who was supposedly up in the club with Lady Mary Mary Vale. So you might be suspicious of him.
2:01.0	So you might be suspicious of him. Bingo is his nameo.
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