Show Notes
In this episode, we take a look at the first five short stories in the Poirot Investigates collection. The Adventure of “The Western Star” The Tragedy of Marsdon Manor The Adventure of the Cheap Flat The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge The Million Dollar Bond Robbery —------------------ We are your hosts: Gillian Porter - a long-time Agatha Christie reader and collector, And her husband Alan Porter, who after almost 40 years of sharing a house with Agatha Christie books has decided he should read them. We’ll be tackling the books in UK publication order as detailed on the official Agatha Christie website, and sharing our thoughts on each from the viewpoint of someone familiar with them, and someone reading them for the first time. —------------------- Links mentioned in this episode Podcast Related Links Chronological Christie Instagram account - https://www.instagram.com/chronologicalchristie/
Chronological Christie @ Bookshop.org - ttps://bookshop.org/lists/chronological-christies
Publication Order List - https://agathachristie.imgix.net/image-store/Read-Christie-2024/ACL_CompleteList_2024.pdf
Wikipedia Pages for the books discussed. Poirot Investigates - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poirot_Investigates
References Agatha Christie: An Autobiography - https://bookshop.org/a/10029/9780062204578
The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie - A Biographical Companion to the Works of Agatha Christie by Charles Osborne
Agatha Christie Poirot The Greatest Detective in the World by Mark Aldridge - https://bookshop.org/a/10029/9780008296643
Poirot tv show IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094525/?ref_=tt_ov_srs
The Adventure of the Western Star is on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/live/RAlCc8f78-U?si=kWh71LLw9YuIcu-5
The second episode of the Japanese Anime series Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple. adapted The Adventure of the Cheap Flat as Yasu Manshon no Nazo (The Riddle of the Cheap Flat) first broadcast on 18 July 2004 - It’s available in YouTube with English subtitles - https://youtu.be/51ecBgc5dMc?si=LWm15joxCq8_edvJ
Other Links Alan’s website - https://alanjporter.wordpress.com/
Alan’s Newsletter - https://alanjporter.substack.com/
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