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

mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agatha Christie.

I'm Camper Donovan.

I'm Catherine Brobeck.

And this week we are discussing why didn't they ask Evans?

An Ag of the Christie novel.

It's been a while since we've covered a novel, so this is exciting.

If you had to come back to a novel, man, I'm so glad it's this one.

We're just going to put this out there right from the get go. This was not our favorite.

We made mention of this at the tail end of our last episode.

I had been under the impression that we

were done with the Agatha Christie thrillers and she does talk about these

thrillers a lot and she was very much aware that they were different from her

detective novels because they were breezy and they were easy to write because they were not as

convoluted and complex plot-wise and she kind of wrote them to take a break coming off of Lord Edgera

dies and the Murder on the Orient Express. I get it, but let's just dive

right in. Catherine Brobeck, would you like to do the honors as to our publication history?

Yeah, it was published in the UK in September of 1934, but more interestingly,

kind of, it was published by Dodd Mead in the US under the

boomerang clue why the boomerang clue you ask we don't really know I have a

theory I have a theory that it has to do with the rather shoddy plotting of this book, but we'll get there later.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves, but yeah, there are no boomerangs featured in this novel that is for sure

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