{"id":387,"date":"2006-02-01T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=387"},"modified":"2024-04-14T17:42:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T21:42:36","slug":"christie_caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/02\/christie_caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie, Agatha: <cite>Caribbean Mystery, A<\/cite> (radio play)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since we first met Mr. Rafiel of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/02\/christie_nemesis.php\"><cite>Nemesis<\/cite><\/a> in <strong><cite>A Carribean Mystery<\/cite><\/strong>, I listed to that next. This is the one where an old bore asks Miss Marple if she wants to see a photograph of a murderer, stops before showing it her with a startled look on his face, and then ends dead. I don&#8217;t recommend experiencing these out of order; Miss Marple doesn&#8217;t ally with Mr. Rafiel until late in the book, and <cite>Nemesis<\/cite> has oblique but real spoilers for this story.<\/p>\n<p>On its own, though, I&#8217;d be a bit dubious about this, as the big revelation that makes the mystery come together doesn&#8217;t seem physically plausible to me. Other than Mr. Rafiel, there isn&#8217;t too much memorable about this. (I do note that a sort of rough justice occurs with regard to one of the red herrings, which goes unremarked upon by the characters in the adaptation.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we first met Mr. Rafiel of Nemesis in A Carribean Mystery, I listed to that next. This is the one where an old bore asks Miss Marple if she wants to see a photograph of a murderer, stops before showing it her with a startled look on his face, and then ends dead. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/02\/christie_caribbean\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christie, Agatha: <cite>Caribbean Mystery, A<\/cite> (radio play)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,6,111],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miss-marple","category-mystery","category-radio-plays","tag-christie-agatha"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}