Mark Aldridge

Yeah, copying.

Otherwise it's non-fiction.

Yeah, just write up the notes of the local council meeting and be like, now it's local politics for you.

I guess that thematically we can see where there are similarities.

with this book and others as well.

Maybe you noticed that on the Agatha Christie website, they draw a comparison between this and Endless Night.

So we're going swinging again.

Yes.

Well, another story which involves a young man climbing the social ladder, apparently unaware of the price of his actions.

Yeah.

That's fair.

I don't know how unaware they are to be...

honest.

I think that certainly Michael in Endless Night, either way, just doesn't care.

Also, in terms of this thing of St.

Lou and Torquay and everything, that you can, we talked about the geography and stuff, but actually I think there's something about the characters.

Like, I assume that Christie knew Torquay's society well, and so I wonder how much of it is drawn from that, because if we look at other works like

uh Body in the Library or Murder at the Vicarage they are very much about the broader institution of how society works and that community operates whether it's the church at the centre or whatever all the ways that the characters interact with it in a slightly different way and I think we get that with politics here that everyone's interacting with the idea of the election in a slightly different way.

I'm a purveyor of information.

Should I bleep that?