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All About Agatha Christie

Tea with Tommy & Tuppence: The Crackler by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

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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