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

novel written by the Queen of Crime, Day Magatha Christie.

I'm Catherine Brobak.

I'm Kemper Donovan.

And we are sort of doing a poro this week.

I say sort of because Mr. Poro does not really show up a lot in this book, but we will get

there.

What book are we covering, Kemper?

We are covering the clocks.

Let me just say up front that apparently a working title for the clocks was the clock

stops.

And I kind of like that working title because I think having the word stop in the title

of this novel could only be a helpful thing while it was being written.

That might give you a little clue of my own as to how I and I believe you as well, Catherine

feel about this novel, we're not super high on it.

Not so much.

Why don't we get started and talk about the publication history of the clocks?

It was published in November 1963 by Collins crime in the UK and by Dodd Mead in the

US in 1964.

In terms of serializations, it was first serialized in the UK weekly magazine Woman's Own in six

abridged installments in late 1963 just after it first appeared in book form, actually.

And then in the US, a condensed version of the novel appeared first in January of 1964

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