And Then There Were 30: The Hollow by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Well, whenever we go beyond an hour of nattering away about a title, it's a good sign, and this episode is no exception. Come and bask with us in the many splendors of The Hollow, a much-beloved, mid-career masterwork of Christie's with rich characters and yet almost no puzzling to speak of, despite the presence of our dear Poirot. If this one is a Christie "crown jewel," it's one with all sorts of imperfections, but everyone knows it's the flaws that make a thing more interesting....

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery novel written by The Queen of Crime, Dame Maggoth Christie.
0:13.6	I'm Catherine Brobeck.
0:15.1	I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:16.3	And this week we are tackling a Christie classic.
0:21.5	The hollow, a Poiro novel. Yes, I know. So why don't I know why don't you tell us a little bit about the publication of this temper?
0:31.0	So the Hollow was first published in book form in the US by Dodd Mead in 1946 and in November
0:39.3	of the same year by of course Collins Crime Club in the UK and it was actually first serialized in
0:45.6	shortened form in collier's Weekly in the US in May 1946 and that was shortly
0:52.1	before it was published in book form by Dodd Mead and that was under the title
0:56.7	the Outraged Heart and I actually know that Christie herself was very miffed about being forced to shorten it and she talks
1:04.4	about having sent back the manuscript suitably mutilated that was the phrase that she
1:09.3	used also weirdly it was republished in the US in paperback in 1954 with yet another title,
1:16.3	Murder After Hours. And you know what, I actually have three more alternate titles for your pleasure Catherine Brobeck.
1:24.3	Please do tell.
1:25.3	These are coming from of course our friend John Kern who often digs up these alternate
1:29.2	titles in Agath Christie's notebooks which is what he has written about to brilliant effect in two different
1:35.0	volumes.
1:36.1	And apparently there were three working titles that Christie used while she was formulating this
1:41.6	one, Tragic Weekend, Return Journey,
1:45.0	and Echo.
1:47.0	And Echo is actually another standout word
1:50.0	from the Alfred Lord Tennyson poem from which the actual
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