Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast All About Agatha Christie.

Today we're going to be discussing Ag of the Christie's third full-length novel,

Murder on the Links. This novel was first published in May 1923 by The Bodley Head.

That's the same publisher that published Christie's first two novels, The Mysterious

of Ferret Styles, and The Secret Adversary.

We are going to try something new in this episode. and the secret adversary.

We are going to try something new in this episode.

Previously, we had been doing synopsies of the plot

in under two minutes to keep it as short as possible since listening to

plot summaries can get a little tedious and then diving into the

mystery puzzle elements of the story but we're going to try to be a little bit more

holistic with how we describe the mystery puzzles of these Ag of the Christie who've done it and actually before we begin I want to just give credit to two different people first is Karen Woodward who

wrote a really useful article called how to write murderously good mystery and

in that article, she cites W.H. Outen,

who wrote also a very helpful essay, The Guilty Vichorage,

Notes on the Detective story by an addict.

W. H. Abbott was a huge, huge mystery novel fan.

And we are a huge mystery novel fan,

so we are going to steal from both Oden and Karen Woodward as we try to figure out exactly what

makes these mystery puzzles tick. We're going to begin with the murder itself.

And in Murder on the Links the murder victim is Paul

Renault who is a wealthy businessman with an unknown and mysterious past.

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