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Problem at Sea

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Bundle_ 28 Apr 10 at 6:45 p.m. GMT

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I just read The Regatta Mystery and other stories and I just wanted to know everyone's opinion about the title to one of the short stories, which is: Problem at Sea. Now to me, that title doesn't seem in any way shape or form remotely related to the actual plot of the story. I mean, was there really a problem at sea? I don't think so. And I can't help but feel that this is the one title AC didn't get right. I think it would have been better if she called it "Murder at Sea" or something like that. What does everyone else think?

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MissQuin 29 Apr 10 at 3:41 p.m. GMT

The locked door mystery is a better title.

I think the Clapham cook might not see her tale as an adventure, seeing as her trunk was used to dispose of a corpse!

Bundle_ 29 Apr 10 at 2:15 p.m. GMT

I understood how the title The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly fit into to the premis, but The Christmas Pudding, I agree, is rather an unfitting title.

But yeah, I guess Murder at Sea could relate to Death on the Nile too. What about The Locked Door Mystery; considering that everyone was trying to figure out how the murderer commited the crime when the door to her cabin was locked.

MissQuin 28 Apr 10 at 7:19 p.m. GMT

Problem at sea, is a slightly (dare I say it)  uninspired title. But I was more mysterfied by the title "The adventure of the Christmas pudding". How can a pudding have an adventure?! There was alot of those in the early Poirot's. The adventure of... the Clapham cook, Johnnie Waverly etc.

I think Murder at Sea could also relate to Death on The Nile. But then there's two stories called Death on the Nile, which is more confusing.

I love the poetic ones Sad Cypress, Taken at The Flood (which has no flood of water) or direct ones-Death in the Clouds.