Mark Aldridge

It's now said there isn't any such animal and that the real moniker of the author is secretly guarded by a few people at the publishers.

There's a rumour that she is British Agatha Christie, but it's only a report.

British Agatha Christie, like there's...

yeah an american one a canadian one and buffalo news uh said very very similar said said to be a nom de plume for agatha christie um and several others said it as well so it it you know was revealed to all and sundry in 1949 but it was an open secret for quite a few years running up to that point yeah that's fascinating thank you for that i think like

Agatha Christie was in big letters.

Giant's Bread was in big letters.

The passing of Mr. Quinn and Mary Westmacott were in small letters.

I have thoughts, but I'm going to keep them to myself until we get to those later ones.

Yes, I think that there's definitely a sense that the last two, the two we're to come to, are slightly out of time with where Agatha is in her own world at that point.

I don't, but I don't think so because I think she's working through a lot of stuff in writing the book.

Whereas I feel like there's something about A Daughter's A Daughter and The Burden.

I mean, A Daughter's A Daughter is obviously from a play.

that was written quite a while ago by the time it was published, which again we'll discuss in the next episode.

But I think they both feel slightly like reheating of ideas that could have been around for a while.

Whereas I think there's more of an immediacy, like either because of where she is mentally.

Yeah, which we know that she had for Absent in the Spring.

This has got to be set in this era and really only works if you write it in this era, I would say.

Unfinished Portrait, as has been speculated, may have even come out of psychoanalysis.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Telling a story in some way.