A Special HALLOWE'EN SPOOKTACULAR Episode: The Fourth Man by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Arts, Books, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

We've got strange goings-on in this early, supernatural Christie short story. What happened to poor Felicie Bault? Could it be a multiple personality disorder? A body swap?! Or something even WEIRDER? You be the judge... but first, delight with me in heaps upon heaps of listener correspondence. Happy Hallowe'en, everyone! For U.S. listeners: pre-order Loose Lips, the second book in my Ghostwriter Mysteries series, at your bookseller of choice here. Check out this Monsieur Poirot/Miss Marple spoof, The Teddy Bear Who Knew Too Much, courtesy of The Two Ronnies. To visit and subscribe to the podcast's Patreon page, click here. Visit the podcast on Twitter and Instagram. Visit me personally on Facebook at Kemper Donovan Books, or at my author website. You can still buy my debut mystery novel, The Busy Body, at your bookseller of choice (make it an indie if you possibly can) in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia and New Zealand.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single
0:10.8	mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agatha Christie.
0:15.0	I am Kemper Donovan and we are days away as this episode airs from Halloween, so welcome to our Halloween spook-tacular episode for 2024.
0:29.2	It is occasions like this that are the reason I hold back a handful, a very few original Agatha Christie short stories,
0:40.8	stories we have not yet covered so that I can trot them out for special holiday
0:46.3	episodes like this one we will be covering the fourth man by Agatha Christie today.
0:53.6	But before we get to that story,
0:55.0	I have some preliminary matters to discuss.
0:58.8	The first is an extremely self-serving one.
1:01.7	The second book in my mystery series, which is titled
1:05.3	Loose Lips, is now available for pre-order in the United States. I've provided a
1:10.6	link in the show notes and I just want to encourage you all up top to pre-order the book if you can at your bookseller of choice.
1:18.6	Those pre-orders really help me out so thank you in advance for that.
1:22.1	And now let's talk spoilers, because I have a big old housekeeping segment to cover
1:29.0	before we get to our short story of the episode and it's a spoilery housekeeping segment because you
1:36.8	listeners wrote to me about a lot of different episodes and a lot of different Christie titles and it is difficult nay impossible to discuss those
1:45.9	titles in great detail without spoiling them so here is a full rundown in
1:52.0	alphabetical order of all the titles in addition to the fourth man that
1:56.8	will be spoiled over the course of this episode to varying degrees.
2:01.3	All right here goes. After the funeral, the capture of
2:05.5	Cerberus, a Caribbean mystery, cat among the pigeons, death comes as the end,
2:18.6	five little pigs, Halloween party, the hollow, Lord Edgware dies, the moving finger, Mrs. McGinty's dead.
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