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All About Agatha Christie

Tea with Tommy & Tuppence: The Sunningdale Mystery by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Rejoice, for our favorite (well, only) married detective duo are back! And they have chosen to put their brains together in the early Twentieth Century version of a Denny's restaurant to solve a murder-by-hatpin on the links that has been reported in the newspaper. Okay, sure! Plus we were able to shoehorn The Golden Girls into this episode, so everybody wins. (Except the hatpin murderer, of course.)

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0:00.0

Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single

0:09.6

mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agatha Christie. I am

0:14.0

Camper Donovan. I'm Catherine Brobag. And this is the Suningdale

0:18.9

Mystery, a Tommy and Tuppence short story within the Greater Partners and Crime Collection.

0:25.2

It has been a little while since we have visited our dear friends Tommy and Tuppence

0:32.2

Barrisford, but we wanted to see how they're doing

0:35.9

sit down for a spell or two with them. Let me just put it this way Kemper I think that

0:42.1

when we next meet them in novel form they're

0:45.2

going to be full-blown grown-ups. Exactly that was also our concern we obviously

0:50.4

want to be done with the partners in crime collection by the time we get to

0:55.4

and or M which we're not getting to for a while but we figured that it was high time

1:00.8

we revisited the Barris Fords so Catherine tell us a little bit about the

1:06.7

publication history of this short story so the Sunningdon mystery was first published

1:12.4

where else but in the sketch we've

1:15.0

Yes we haven't been to the sketch in a while I feel like we should all be

1:19.4

very excited to find our friend the sketchback but that was on October 29th

1:27.2

1924 and it was called the Sunning Hall mystery.

1:33.2

Which is interesting for reasons

1:36.2

that we will get into about Sunningdale,

1:39.3

where Agathicristy was in fact living

1:41.6

when she wrote this mystery.

1:44.0

Oh, but by the time...

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