[HN Gopher] Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley review
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       Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley review
        
       Author : lermontov
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2022-09-01 04:38 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | AlbertCory wrote:
       | I've never been into mysteries, particularly, but I'm reading
       | "And Then There Were None" right now. Mostly to see how she does
       | it.
       | 
       | Note that this "study guide":
       | https://www.studymode.com/essays/And-Then-There-Were-None-My...
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       | gets the name of the island wrong: it's "Soldier Island."
        
         | anjbe wrote:
         | Well, the book was originally published in England under the
         | name _Ten Little N[?]s_ , and in that edition the location was
         | named "N[?] Island."
         | 
         | For obvious reasons, that title was considered unsuitable for
         | sale in America, so American editions were renamed to _And Then
         | There Were None_ , and the island and poem were changed to
         | reference (depending on edition) Indians or soldiers instead.
         | Most editions these days have settled upon soldiers.
         | 
         | Incidentally, Wikipedia mentions one use of the phrase "our
         | black brothers" that only makes sense in the context of the
         | original naming.
        
           | AlbertCory wrote:
           | Interesting. Was there actually a N__ Island?
        
       | jononomo wrote:
       | Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist in history. (JK
       | Rowling is behind her by billions of copies and only Shakespeare
       | comes close to her.)
       | 
       | I honestly really love her novels. Sometimes they're a bit
       | contrived, but they're fun and somehow not as dull as other
       | murder mystery novels that I've tried to read. I can zip through
       | one of her books in 4-5 hours.
       | 
       | Here is a great podcast about her:
       | https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/185-agatha-christie/id...
        
       | anjbe wrote:
       | Enough time has passed that Agatha Christie's books have started
       | falling into the public domain in the United States. She
       | published a new book (sometimes more) every single year from 1921
       | until her death, so every January we can look forward to another
       | expired copyright. I've read all of the Standard Ebooks editions
       | (https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie) and can
       | recommend them.
       | 
       | She died in 1976, so in life+50 countries, all her works will
       | become public domain in 2027 (84 will still be copyrighted in the
       | US); in life+70 countries, the year will be 2047 (34 will still
       | be copyrighted in the US). The copyrights will continue to expire
       | in the US until 2072, when the the last book published in her
       | lifetime falls into the public domain.
        
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