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Old 11-14-2019, 10:24 AM   #1072
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Originally Posted by BookCat View Post
Agatha has a number of novels with confusingly different titles; some with no obvious reason for the change. Why is "Thirteen At Dinner" also called "Lord Edgware Dies"? Readers can find themselves reading the same novel twice because of this. (Or at least the first few pages.)
As far as I can tell publishers have a strong influence on titles and in many cases her British and American publishers choose different titles.
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