6/2/2023 0 Comments Third Girl by Agatha Christie![]() ![]() So, having searched online and using Google books and found nothing to link either name to drugs, I think it safe to say that neither of the 'dream drugs' map to contemporaneous street pharmaceuticals but are there as signposts to the reader. So with the Op's question about 'Dream Bombs' and the 'Emerald dreams' Frances sampled we have two drugs introducing the notion of an induced dream state. ![]() Have some more before I've drunk it all? Basil would make us try some new pills - Emerald Dreams. ![]() Oh well, I suppose black coffee will be helpful. "I was up too late last night," she said. ![]() A young woman shows up at Hercule Poirots door and insists that she thinks that she has committed murder. I believe that Christie introduces the notion of there being lots of 'new' drugs around, possibly as an authorial defense against people picking holes in the storyline if some real named drug such as LSD or Purple hearts wouldn't have quite the effect required by the narrative, but also as a means of dropping breadcrumbs for the reader that 'dreams' and 'drugs' are linked and important.Īt one point in the story, Claudia and Frances are in discussion, about Norma, David, the drug and party scene etc: Agatha Christie offers her readers a strange little mystery. The plot hinges on the dream state induced in Norma by drugs administered by Robert Orwell, posing as her father, and his wife. ![]()
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