{"id":470,"date":"2006-11-26T18:17:24","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T18:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=470"},"modified":"2024-02-23T21:17:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T02:17:33","slug":"christie_abc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/11\/christie_abc\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie, Agatha: <cite>ABC Murders, The<\/cite> (radio play)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <strong><cite>The ABC Murders<\/cite><\/strong>, Hercule Poirot gets a taunting letter warning him to look out for Andover on a certain date, signed &#8220;ABC.&#8221; Of course, someone is murdered on that date, and an ABC Railway Guide is found near the body. More murders follow, and Poirot must track down an apparent psychopath.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, I listened to this as a radio play, so I&#8217;m not sure whether the presentation of a particular form of misdirection originated in the book or in the adaptation. The misdirection worked almost too well: I said to myself, &#8220;ugh, is this the kind of story we&#8217;re getting?&#8221; and stopped giving it my full attention. It seemed to end satisfyingly, however, and in a way consistent with the characters. I should remember that my skepticism apparently is reduced when I&#8217;m tired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The ABC Murders, Hercule Poirot gets a taunting letter warning him to look out for Andover on a certain date, signed &#8220;ABC.&#8221; Of course, someone is murdered on that date, and an ABC Railway Guide is found near the body. More murders follow, and Poirot must track down an apparent psychopath. As usual, I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/11\/christie_abc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christie, Agatha: <cite>ABC Murders, The<\/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":[84,6,111],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hercule-poirot","category-mystery","category-radio-plays","tag-christie-agatha"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","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=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2855,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/2855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}