Tea with Tommy & Tuppence: The Crackler by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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For the Americans among us, we may be looking forward to a little R&R over the impending Thanksgiving break, and why not add a little T&T to that equation? Regardless of your nationality, join us in this quaint little counterfeit caper, in which our favorite married detectives are shown the money, and then some.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single
0:09.3	mystery novel written by The Queen of Crime, Dame Agathicristy. I'm Camper Donovan. I'm
0:14.8	Catherine Broback. And this week we are discussing Tommy and Tuppence.
0:19.9	Yay! Another story within the Partners in Crime Collection, our last Tommy and Tuppins for a little bit.
0:26.0	There's not a lot of Tommy and Tuppins to go around in the Christie verse, so we've done a fair amount.
0:31.7	This shall be our last story until sometime further down the road.
0:36.8	So let's enjoy this while it's still around and talk about the crackler. is the title of our current story
0:46.8	Catherine Brobeck tell us a little bit about this delight the crackler was first
0:52.4	published in, guess what, the Sketch.
0:56.0	The Sketch.
0:57.0	November 19th, 1924, and it was not called the Craggler.
1:02.5	It was instead called the affair of the forged notes,
1:05.5	which, let's be honest, probably a better name for this story.
1:09.0	Yeah, not huge fans of the title, the Craggler,
1:12.7	although to be fair to Christie and the Barisfords,
1:16.4	they themselves make fun of this title.
1:18.8	Oh, not Tommy, only Tuppens does.
1:21.0	Tommy is very, very set on the crackler.
1:25.0	Yeah.
1:26.0	He's into it.
1:27.0	So let's talk about our victim.
1:28.8	And as the alternate title may clue you in, This is not a murder mystery. This is a counterfeit
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