Welcome to all about Agatha.

The podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime,

Dame Agathaigristi.

I'm Catherine Brobeck.

I'm Camper Donovan.

And this week we are covering

Ted Man's Folly, which I have a lot of appreciation for, not least of which because it's a

pooro but for some reason I randomly have two copies of this Camber.

That's always very exciting. Why don't you start us off by telling us about the publication

history? I would be happy to. Dead Man's Folly was first published in

serialized form in the US in Collier's magazine between July and August 1956.

Then it was serialized in the UK in John Bowl from August to September the same year.

It was published as a novel in October of 1956 by Dodd Mead in the US, and then of course by Collins Crime Club in the UK in November of

1956.

So pretty straightforward publication history.

However, however, yes.

I have a series of fun facts about this which I'm going to start off just with an anecdote as to my own reading

experience when I was revisiting this novel for the podcast. So I finished

this novel and I enjoyed my read but when I got to the end of it I said to myself and I swear this is the true sequence of events here

I got to the end of the novel before doing any research and I said to myself you know more so

than a lot of other Christie novels this one feels to me like a

novella and it feels like a novella that got padded out and I said you know I

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