Gray Robert Brown

Because basically...

one thing leads to another and and labra which is the candidate wilbraham ultimately gets in instantly because of what happens towards the end of the book but yeah it's almost like chrissy because it is a book that hews closely to history modern history recent history yeah which is a big factor and it's when it came to be published and went to the publisher but we'll come on to that we will

Yeah, you made the point in the introduction episode specifically because I was listening to it again the other day.

The giant spread happens when they're courting and every book is published under their marriage.

And it's funny because so many of the books are wrestling in a way with her first marriage, but they are all written technically

as Agatha Malouin or Mary Westmacott or Agatha Christie.

She's a woman of so many guises.

She's still sort of working it out.

It's sort of in between.

And you can feel that in the book.

It's fascinating.

Yeah.

Hugh says that when he's a kid, Hugh's our protagonist.

He says when he's a kid, he would announce himself in the third person coming down.

Here's Hugh coming down the stairs now.

And that's what Matthew used to do as a kid.

But what's really interesting is Christie uses that.

extrapolates that out in a bit of a moment of crisis for Hugh and actually it becomes about identity because he then goes here's Teresa marrying Robert here's Teresa you know he's like here's John Gabriel here's Hugh here's everything I'm paraphrasing but he's like I don't know what to do with where we are at this crossroads but I just love that Matthew was the inspiration the colonel yeah his like charm as a kid was the colonel for that what becomes quite a significant moment in the book

And also a publishing around this.

I wonder if you can hear the cocktail that's being mixed in the background.