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ποΈ 1 May 2024
β±οΈ 56 minutes
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0:00.0 | Must remember do not forget |
0:08.0 | remind me to bring photo ID |
0:11.0 | reminder set babe can you make sure I don't forget Photo ID. Reminder, set. |
0:13.0 | Babe, can you make sure I don't forget my photo ID when I vote? |
0:17.0 | All right, love. |
0:20.0 | However you remember, you'll need photo ID to vote on the 2nd of May. |
0:24.7 | Find out more at Electoralcommission. I'm Caroline Crampton. And welcome back to Green Penguin Book Club, a series within She Dunnet that documents my journey of reading and |
0:45.2 | discussing every crime title from the main Penguin series in order. Our book today is The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie, which was originally |
0:58.4 | published in 1923 and then republished in 1936 by The Bodley Head as part of the Penguin series. |
1:05.2 | It is officially Penguin Number 6A, which makes it a bit of an anomaly though. |
1:10.9 | The original Penguin Number 6, one of the first 10 titles |
1:15.8 | debuted in 1935 was the Mysterious Affair at Stiles also by Agatha Christie. But this was |
1:22.4 | pulled from the series soon after publication |
1:25.2 | and quickly replaced by the Murder on the Links for Future Reprits. This happened |
1:30.1 | because of a contractual misunderstanding. Alan Lane had been trying to save money on the original 10 Penguins |
1:36.0 | and include as many books that the Bodley head, |
1:39.0 | then publisher of the Penguin series, already owned the rights to. He and colleagues |
1:44.7 | assumed that because they had been the original publisher for the mysterious |
1:48.3 | Affaret styles, they could therefore include it in their new series at no extra cost. |
1:54.8 | But that wasn't quite the relationship defined by Agatha Christie's original contract. |
1:59.8 | So to avoid a dispute with a by then very popular author, they pulled Styles from the series |
2:06.0 | and replaced it with a title they definitely did have the rights to, the Murder on the Links. |
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