And Then There Were 23: After the Funeral by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Arts, Books, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

We both adored this (somewhat) unsung Christie gem... though not without reservations. Fortunately, for purposes of discussion, those reservations turned out to be slightly different. It's a truth universally acknowledged that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, and that certainly holds true for the various familial arrangements portrayed so vividly in this sprawling novel.

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0:00.0	On BBC A
0:02.0	I am doing life a few more years means nothing to me
0:06.0	I'm pregnant
0:08.0	drudges go easy on pregnant women
0:10.0	I've been old my electricity that's all don't think I should even be in here.
0:14.0	A new series of the Bafter Award winning time.
0:18.0	You tell anyone and I mean anyone about me I will kill you. Starring Jody Whitaker, Tamara Lawrence and Bella Ramsey.
0:27.0	Time. Watch on BBC High Player. Welcome to all about Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Aggoth the Christie, I'm Catherine Brobeck.
0:44.5	I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:45.6	And we are happy to be here for many reasons,
0:49.3	especially because it is a pouro that we are covering this week and you know how much I love a good pouro
0:55.3	temper. You were due one, Catherine. We were able to wallow in a marble novel last time. We now have a pouiro on our hands. What are we covering
1:04.2	Catherine? We are covering after the funeral aka funerals are fatal. Funerals are
1:10.1	fatal is in fact the copy that I read and I think we posted it on our
1:15.0	Instagram. That's right and yes a funerals are fatal the US version was the first
1:20.5	serialization that we have in the Chicago Tribune in
1:23.4	1953. In the UK it was serialized a little later that same year in John
1:28.0	Bowel and then in book form it was first published in the US by Dodd-Made of
1:32.2	course as funerals are Fatal again in
1:34.0	1953 and a little later that same year by Collins Crime Club or old friend in the
1:38.1	UK under Chrissy's chosen title after the Catherine, who are our victims for this novel?
1:45.3	We start with Richard Abernathy,
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