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

Day Maggatha Christie. I'm Camper Donovan. Dame Maggot the Christie.

I'm Camper Donovan.

I'm Catherine Braebak.

And this week we are covering a Tommy and Tuppence short story.

We love Tommy and Tuppence.

Of course we do.

That would be the unbreakable alibi. We are nearing the end of the Partners in Crime Collection slowly and so much surely making your way through it.

Tell us a little bit about when this one was published.

Well, so it is actually a later story.

It's published in something called The Holly Leaves,

which is a Christmas edition of Illustrated Sporting a Dramatic News,

and so is published in December 1928, which does give you a Christie short story for Christmas, but is much later than actually the other Tommy Tuppens story that we've covered?

Yeah, 1928 is relatively late for this collection.

Obviously, it's still significantly earlier

than the novels were currently covering,

but again, though,

Christie's story published around Christmas

that isn't particularly Christmas

is it?

I would not say so.

That trend holds, so maybe in a way it was appropriate to do this

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