THE MYSTERY OF HUNTER'S LODGE by AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT INVESTIGATES

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

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🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Yes- Poirot is BACK!...despite the terrible review we received a couple years ago complaining that my French sounds like its been infusd with Russian.. I was moved by that, and left for a year to study at the Sarbonne, at which time I was reminded that Poirot's character was born in lived as a child in in Portugal, and often took trips with his father to Moscowbefore the fall of the Romanovs-so I had to spend some time there as well. then it was back to the states to study the shows on PBS with David Suchet who does a tolerable job with Poirot- whats a few Emmy's anyway? Someday I will win the equivalent of an Emmy- what's that in podcasting- a Poddy?...for my interpretation of a (in this story) flu-weakened Poirot who hasn't lost his crime solving ability yet, Hastings. So there. Now on with the show.

The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge is a short story written by Agatha Christie, which was first published in The Sketch in May 1923 in the U.K. The story was published in the U.S. in The Blue Book Magazine in June 1924 as "The Hunter's Lodge Case". In 1924 also, the story appeared as part of the collection Poirot Investigates.

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0:00.0	Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales.
0:17.5	This is your host, John Haggardorn.
0:19.6	It's time for me to do a Poirot story called
0:22.6	The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge. It's an Agatha Christie story from her collection called Poirot Investigates,
0:29.4	written in 1925. It's a great story, and we hope that you enjoy it. Thank you.
0:38.4	After all, remembered Poirot, it is possible that I shall not die this time.
0:45.3	Coming from a convalescent influenza patient, I held the remark as showing a beneficial optimism.
0:51.6	I myself had been the first sufferer from the disease. Porro, in his turn, had gone down.
0:57.9	He was now sitting up in bed, propped up with pillows, his head muffled in a woolen shawl,
1:03.5	and was slowly slipping a particularly noxious tisane which I had prepared according to his directions.
1:09.0	His eye rested with pleasure upon a neatly
1:11.2	graduated row of medicine bottles which adorned at the mantelpiece.
1:16.4	Yes, yes, my little friend continued. Once more I shall be myself again, the great Erko Bowero,
1:24.6	the terror of evildoers. Figure to yourself, monomie, that I have a little paragraph to myself in society gossip.
1:32.3	But yes, here it is.
1:35.3	Goet, criminals, all out.
1:39.3	Ercourpourou! And believe me, girls, here is some Hercules. our own pet society detective can't get grip on you
1:47.5	cause why because he's got la grip himself i laughed good for you porro you're becoming quite a public
1:56.0	character and fortunately you haven't missed anything of particular interest during this time
2:00.3	that is true the few cases I have had to decline did not feel me with any regret.'
2:06.6	"'Our landlady stuck her head into the door. There's a gentleman downstairs, says he must see Monsieur Porro or you, Captain.
2:15.9	"'Seen as he was in a great to-do,
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