Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and drinking every single

Mr novel written by the Queen of Crime, Day Magathic, I am Camper Donovan.

I'm Catherine Grobeck.

And this week we are covering a novel, hooray.

We did it. So we are reading three-act

tragedy or as it is known in the US, Murder in Three Acts, and we will be talking a lot about UK versus US when it comes to this book.

So in that vein, Catherine Brobeck, take it away and give us a sense of the publication history here.

So it was actually published in the US first. So we've seen

this before. Yeah. Here is another case. It was published in 1934 in the US by Dodd- Mead.

And it was published in the UK in 1935. We'll talk about it later

but there are actually some concrete changes between the two editions which is

more unusual than not I think at least from what I could see there is only one other novel which we have not gotten to yet in which that also happens which is the moving finger and I don't know what the substantive differences are the moving finger either. I was never aware that this was even a

thing that could happen in Christie until we covered this book so I think it's

pretty interesting. It's also the title difference is so pointless to me.

It's another one of those like why?

Did Dodd me just say if it doesn't have murder and it no one's gonna buy it,

you know, like tragedy's not strong enough.

Maybe, I don't know. what I do know is I have a

really great fontana edition paper back from the 1970s yeah I know so I was incredibly

excited I was incredibly excited.

I was like, super great painting artwork on the front.

So let's talk about our victims.

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