Tea with Tommy & Tuppence: The Affair of the Pink Pearl by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Get ready for some light-hearted banter, folks, because Tommy and Tuppence are back! T&T sightings are relatively sparse in the Christieverse, but this early collection of short stories will help tide us over, as will the early '80s TV adaptations. Prepare to be delighted.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single
0:09.6	mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime,
0:12.8	Day Mac of the Christie.
0:14.0	I'm Camper Donovan.
0:15.5	I'm Catherine Broback.
0:17.3	And this week, we have something a little special,
0:21.4	a little different for you. Our friends Tommy and Tuppins who we have not heard from...
0:26.3	Oh my gosh. I know since way back in the day the secret adversary which was Ag of
0:32.4	the Christi second novel we have neglected. the
0:33.0	second novel, we have neglected poor Tommy and Tuppance because
0:37.0	quite soon after she published that novel,
0:41.0	she actually wrote a series of short stories about this delightful
0:45.5	detective duo a married detective duo they did get married at the end of the secret
0:50.2	adversary Catherine tells a little bit more about the publication
0:53.4	history of this collection. So the story that we are actually going to talk
0:57.6	about is called the Affair of the Pink Pearl. That was first published on
1:02.4	October 1st,
1:03.2	1924 and none other than the sketch.
1:06.8	But the week before, there were what actually make up
1:11.9	like the two first chapters of the collection.
1:14.8	They were published first and so they are the intro and the setup
1:20.1	to our adventures with T&T. So basically T
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