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

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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.

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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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Please join us for our next episode where we will be discussing the next five stories in  Poirot Investigates

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