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All About Agatha Christie

The Name's Bond. James Bond. Just Not *That* James Bond: The Rajah's Emerald by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

No, really: the protagonist of this story is "James Bond," who appears more than a quarter century before Ian Fleming's *slightly* more famous character. And our poor James Bond is suffering through a vacation (er, holiday) so wretched, it has to be one of the worst Christie ever depicted--which as we've discussed in previous episodes is definitely saying something, given Poirot's various ill-advised vacances sur la plage.... Let's take the plunge in the icy English waters together, shall we?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery

0:09.8

novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Magath the Christie. I'm Catherine Brobeck and I'm

0:14.8

Kemper Donovan. And this week we are going back to Kemper's favorite short story

0:19.6

collection, The Listerdale Mystery.ondistry Rejoys.

0:23.0

So excited.

0:26.0

You know, we have a fun title this time, right?

0:30.0

The Rajas Emerald.

0:32.0

Is it fun? I mean. Right the Rajas, Admiral?

0:32.8

Is it fun?

0:33.8

I mean.

0:35.4

It makes me worried.

0:38.6

100% worried.

0:40.6

But I was trying to say that we should start this on an upbeat note and hope that this might just be a fun exciting adventure.

0:50.4

When I saw the title, my face became a side eye emoji.

0:54.0

Yeah, I mean it immediately brings up a lot of questions.

1:02.0

But to be fair to the story I actually think most of those

1:04.8

worries turned out to not be borne out. This story skirts around the edges of

1:12.0

of anything all that

1:14.0

controversial?

1:15.0

Truly offensive.

1:16.0

Yeah, yeah.

1:17.0

Yeah.

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