And Then There Were 56: The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Well, this turned out to be rather a delightful read, despite a surprising number of unpleasant characters of the male persuasion. Perhaps that is the ultimate revenge of our plucky heroine, Emily Trefusis (not to mention Dame Agatha herself), in this, our very first standalone novel. So make yourself a hot cocoa (sans strychnine, please) and come enjoy with us the wintry wonders of Devon....

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single
0:10.2	mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agath Christi.
0:15.0	I'm Catherine Broback and I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:18.0	And this week we are tackling the Cittiford Mystery which was not actually originally published under that name.
0:26.5	In fact, it was originally published as the Murder at Hazelmore, which incidentally sort of is a more sunsicle name for it so we
0:36.6	can get into that it is and it was first published in the US right which is
0:41.2	yes very strange the first time that that's happening for a novel and this
0:46.0	kind of begins the odd retitling between the US and the UK which I don't think
0:50.9	we've come across yet either.
0:53.0	I'm honestly, I tried to do a little bit of my own online sloothing as to why there are so
0:58.4	many alternate titles for the American versions of Christie and I have not come up with a satisfying
1:06.5	answer. I know this is not specific to Christie even the Harry Potter series
1:10.7	sometimes is a little bit differently titled but it's curious.
1:14.1	Well I mean it was called the murder on Hazelmore in its first UK publishing
1:19.6	T. Correct? I believe so yeah yeah. And in the title,
1:23.0	so there's only a subsequent change, which is like awfully weird because you
1:26.9	think that murder is usually more enticing. Yeah, she seems to tend to use
1:31.8	murder or mystery in these titles, so maybe she thought one is as good as the other.
1:38.0	Or the secret of Sittiford with off the table.
1:42.0	The Sittineford secret.
1:43.3	It's, yeah, I mean, the murder takes place at that
1:45.5	at Hazelmore.
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