And Then There Were 40: Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

While the characters populating this Poirot novel almost all live up to its melancholy title, we're happy to report our reading experience did not, as we both quite liked this unusually structured Christie puzzle mystery... despite some glaring plot holes.

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0:00.0	Welcome to all about Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and drinking every single mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime,
0:11.0	Dame Maggotha Christie.
0:12.8	I'm Kemberbek.
0:15.1	And this week we are covering Sad Cypress,
0:18.3	a Poirot novel.
0:20.1	Let's just get right into it and talk a little bit about the publication history,
0:24.3	Catherine Brobeck.
0:25.2	Statty First was of course published by none other than Collins Crime Club in March of 1940
0:31.5	in the UK and the same year by Dodd Mead in the US.
0:36.3	So the title is from, and this is how the book opens.
0:39.3	I like it.
0:39.8	It is from 12 night.
0:41.3	Come away, come away death. And in sad Cyprus let me be laid.
0:45.6	Fly away, fly away breath. I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white stuck all with
0:52.2	you. Oh, prepare it. My shroud of white stuck all with you. Oh prepare it. My part of death no one so true did share it.
0:57.0	It's funny I made a note saying for once I also liked the Shakespeare quote that Christy used because I feel like I've come down hard on her.
1:05.2	Remember the Simbeline quote that ended employment with death?
1:08.6	Not a fan, not a fan.
1:10.2	Apparently Dodd Mead in the US were worried that readers might confuse Cyprus with the country Cyprus.
1:17.0	Oh dear.
1:19.0	Yeah, and Christie suggested I am slain, which is also from that same quote as an alternate title.
1:25.1	But in the end, they just decided to keep it the same, which I think was a good decision because
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