Tea with Tommy & Tuppence: The House of Lurking Death by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Well this one has a lot of Sturm und Drang for what we've come to expect from the Beresfords! But really, when a story includes *both* a box of poisoned chocolates and a suspected case of ptomaine (t)poisoning, should we really be all that surprised when someone's bed goes up in flames?

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single
0:09.8	mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie, I'm
0:14.2	Kemper Donovan, I'm Catherine Braback. And this is the House of Lirking
0:19.7	Death. Ooh, ominous. I know a very ominously titled Tommy and Tuppence story.
0:26.4	No. Not so often that we get such a big title for these two and kind of a
0:31.0	creepy story too in some ways.
0:33.2	Yeah, it is.
0:34.2	So let's jump right into this one and talk about the publication history.
0:36.7	It was published in, uh, the sketch.
0:39.6	The sketch!
0:40.6	The sketch on November 5th, 1924. And then of course obviously in the Partners in Crime
0:45.2	Collection in 1929.
0:46.8	Jumping right in, we're going to talk about our victim, who is Lois Hard Reeves, a well-dressed
0:52.3	pretty young lady from a country estate called Thurnley
0:55.7	Grange, who has come to the agency to ask Mr Blunt, yes I am using air quotes right now as I say that because that of course would be Tommy for help.
1:04.4	Remember they are posing as the blunt detective agency so Tommy is Mr Blunt and Tuppence is his assistant
1:10.9	Miss Robinson.
1:12.7	And Lois comes in because she has recently
1:15.2	received a box of poison chocolates.
1:18.3	My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates.
1:23.0	Of course she has.
1:25.0	Regular occurrence.
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