(urth) PEACE: Typo or clue?

[Roy C. Lackey]

Dave Tallman wrote:
>I'm continuing to look with suspicion on Miss Hadow, and I discovered
>what is either a typo or a significant clue. On p. 226 of the Berkeley
>paperback edition, she says "I'm Mr. Scrudder's secretary."  On page
>243, she says "...in Mr. Scudder's office I just come in and go out
>whenever I please." I read an Agatha Christie mystery where an apparent
>typo like this is a major clue. Does this same name error occur in all
>editions?
>
>If this isn't a typo, she called her supposed boss by the wrong name.
>There is a Charlie Scudder, an executive vice-president (p. 135). Den
>drank with him in the early days of his presidency (p. 152).

I believe Scrudder is a typo. In the 1985 Chatto (British) hb edition the
pagination is different but the name is Scudder in both places you cite in
the Berkley pb.

-Roy