Tea with Tommy & Tuppence: The Case of the Missing Lady by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Time to get your screwball on! This may be Christie's most Wodehousian story yet (and it's certainly got some competition). Join us as we dive into a delightfully lighthearted Tommy & Tuppence caper. Oh, and also: were you aware that FUTURE PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN once played Tommy in a live televised adaptation of this very story?! Because we certainly were not. So much yet to learn about the Christieverse....

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking, every single
0:09.9	mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie, I'm
0:14.5	Catherine Brobeck and I'm Kemper Donovan and this week we are back to short
0:19.2	stories and we are back to Tommy and Tuppins. So what are we covering this week, Kemper?
0:26.0	This week we are covering the case of the missing lady,
0:30.0	first published in the sketch on October 15th, 1924 and this is another story the next
0:37.5	story within the Partners in Crime Collection. Let's get started with our victim.
0:43.0	So the victim is one Mrs. Morris Lee Gordon.
0:49.0	Her first name is Hermione.
0:50.0	She's a widow who is now enfianced to the famous explorer Gabriel Stavonson and she's gone missing.
1:01.0	She's never shown up at any of her known locations on her itinerary.
1:05.0	Nobody really seems to know where she is. At least this is all according to her
1:09.4	fiance who has come to Tommy Tepins because he has panicked that she has gone MIA and
1:15.5	that something has happened to her.
1:17.1	Poor Hermes, what happened?
1:18.7	She is referred to as Hermes throughout, which I really appreciated.
1:23.0	So suspects Gabriel or Gabriel?
1:26.4	Gabriel? Gabriel?
1:27.4	Sure.
1:28.4	Gabriel Stavinson, the famed Arctic Explorer.
1:31.8	So as mentioned, he returned to London two weeks earlier than expected.
1:35.7	He was gone for two years and all he wants to do is see his beloved Hermy, but she, as we mentioned, has disappeared without a trace.
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