And Then There Were 54: Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This one is a little controversial! In a few different ways. Join us for a rollicking discussion of our latest Poirot novel, including such topics as: feminist literary theory (and whether it has a place in the interpretation of this text), and our first instance of (a subtextual, yet heavily implied) homophobia.... Oh, and there's also David Suchet playing (gasp) Inspector Japp!

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single
0:10.3	mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agatha Christie.
0:15.0	I'm Catherine Brobeck and I'm Kemper Donovan and this week we have the pleasure to bring
0:20.0	to you Lord Edgware dies. A. A. A. A. 13 at dinner.
0:24.0	A. A. 13 at dinner.
0:26.0	So how did that come to pass? You say, well, it was first published by, of course, Collins Crime Club in September of 1933 but in the
0:36.4	US it was called 13 at dinner and it was actually published under that in the
0:41.2	US for quite some time and prior to that serialized in the
0:46.0	American magazines. I hate to say this up front but the problem with the title
0:50.9	change is that while Lord Edward dies is I suppose a spoiler
0:56.3	13 at dinner is a much bigger spoiler in that it focuses a reader on the issue of that dinner party.
1:03.8	That's your problem with that?
1:05.4	Yeah, it's potentially problematic.
1:07.4	I still think it's okay.
1:09.0	I kind of like 13 at dinner.
1:10.2	It's a slightly, I like when the titles have a little bit of spooky spice to them
1:13.6	Spooky spice is like the lost spice girl.
1:16.5	She would have been like through gabalt is that what her name was from Ferrugus not not
1:26.7	Ferruk assault I want the world I want the whole world from the craft.
1:33.6	I was a feather stiff as a board.
1:39.2	Ferruza Balk, who by the way,
1:41.2	starred first way before the craft,
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