{"podcast":{"title":"Golden Age Fiction","slug":"golden-age-fiction-7113362","podcast_index_feed_id":7113362,"rss_url":"https://feeds.redcircle.com/43f90e90-8c8e-40b4-9c4c-7d3d9ce904e3","website_url":"https://redcircle.com/shows/golden-age-fiction8846","image_url":"https://media.redcircle.com/images/2026/1/9/1/2032e917-8cdc-405f-be16-f8a9bea7af62_Podcast_Square_Artwork_v2.png","author":"Paul Lawley-Jones","episode_count":178,"summary":"Stories from the \"Golden Age of Pulp Fiction.\" The \"Golden Age of Pulp Fiction\" is generally considered to be from the last decade of the 1800s to the mid-1900s, when magazines published on cheap pulp paper filled (mostly American) news-stands. Notable examples of these pulp fiction magazines include Argosy, Blue Book Magazine, Adventure, Detective Story Magazine, Weird Tales, and Astounding Stories. If you have a story that you'd like me to perform, please let me know at goldenagefiction@proton.me. Please note that performance of a story is not a condoning, endorsement, or promotion of attitudes, prejudices, biases or opinions therein—particularly of gender and gender roles, ethnicity, disability, and sexuality—that an inhabitant of modern times would find distasteful.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-15T04:19:16.531003+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/golden-age-fiction-7113362"},"episode":{"title":"The Million Dollar Bond Robbery, by Agatha Christie","slug":"the-million-dollar-bond-robbery-by-agatha-christie","published_at":"2026-03-23T10:00:28+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/golden-age-fiction-7113362/the-million-dollar-bond-robbery-by-agatha-christie","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/golden-age-fiction-7113362","url":"https://redcircle.com/shows/43f90e90-8c8e-40b4-9c4c-7d3d9ce904e3/episodes/15ae0583-1db2-42ae-8918-6e6700770d6c","audio_url":"https://audio3.redcircle.com/episodes/15ae0583-1db2-42ae-8918-6e6700770d6c/stream.mp3","summary":"Hercule Poirot's little grey cells penetrate straight to the heart of the solution when a million dollars worth of bonds are at stake. \"The Million Dollar Bond Robbery\" appeared in the book \"Poirot Investigates,\" published by \"The Bodley Head Limited\" in 1921 on pages 80 to 91. ----- Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the \"Golden Age of Detective Fiction,\" Christie has been called the \"Queen of Crime\"—now trademarked by her estate—or the \"Queen of Mystery.\" She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies. ----- If there's a story you'd like me to narrate, or a genre you'd like me to include more of, please let me know at goldenagefiction@proton.me . ----- Music : \"Mesmerizing Galaxy\" Kevin MacLeod ( incompetech.com ). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ .","meta_description":"Hercule Poirot's little grey cells penetrate straight to the heart of the solution when a million dollars worth of bonds are at stake. \"The Million Dollar…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1434,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/golden-age-fiction-7113362/episodes/the-million-dollar-bond-robbery-by-agatha-christie/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/golden-age-fiction-7113362/the-million-dollar-bond-robbery-by-agatha-christie.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}