And Then There Were 37: N or M? by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Rejoice or beware, per your preference, because Tommy & Tuppence, those alliterative lovebirds, are back! And in wartime no less: the spring of 1940, to be exact (and Christie is very exact). Join us as we discuss this mid-career thriller of Christie's, which is in many ways quite typical (poor Tommy and his poor head!), but in others quite unusual....

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0:00.0	Welcome to all about Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every
0:09.2	single mystery novel written by the Queen of Prime,
0:12.8	Dame Maggot Christi.
0:14.4	I'm Catherine Brobeck.
0:15.6	And I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:17.0	And this week we are revisiting a couple
0:21.6	that we actually have visited within recent memory but only in short story form.
0:26.5	We are doing an or am and it has our dear Bearsfords.
0:30.9	Tommy and Tuppins, we are back with the Beresfords. I'm excited Catherine. I think you were
0:37.7	excited about this one as well. We shall discuss whether or not our excitement was justified.
0:45.0	Yes and no is my short answer for the top of this episode.
0:52.0	And I suppose we should talk about the publication history of this one.
0:56.0	N or M, we are in World War II and how this was first published in the US in 1941 for Dodd-Meed of course and then later in
1:06.4	November of the same year in the UK by of course the Collins Crime Club and then as always with Christie because she
1:16.2	was so prolific it's just interesting to know that even though this was
1:19.0	published in 1941 it was written in 1940 so very much written during the war and in the early years of the war.
1:26.0	Christie had a lot of problems actually with the reception of this book in the US.
1:31.0	In 1940, the US had not yet entered the war and the initial response from US
1:36.8	publishers was ooh this is a little too much pro-war stuff like I don't know if our readers are going to like this because there had
1:44.6	been a lot of anti-war sentiment in the 1940 election where Roosevelt was of course
1:49.6	re-elected and there was just a lot of that talk going on.
1:52.8	So for a while, no one even seemed to want it,
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