Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agatha Christie.

I am Kemper Donovan, and happy holidays to those who celebrate here at the end of, a year that many are happy to see the end of.

If that is the case for you out there, I hope that 2026 provides something a little different, a little better.

I've got lots of great plans for 2026 on this podcast, including a review of Wake Up Dead Man, written and directed by Ryan Johnson.

That will be my first Patreon episode of 26 coming out on the 5th of January.

A movie, I imagine many of you will be watching this holiday season if you haven't already seen it.

There's a link to Patreon in the show notes,

of course. I thought it would be really fun to bring you two of our previous holiday themed episodes

here on the podcast, both of them co-hosted with my late and eternally missed co-host and

partner, Catherine Brobeck. We've got a Poirot and a Marple here for you.

Two Christies for Christmas. An adventure and a tragedy. Both of the Christmas variety.

We will be revisiting the adventure of the Christmas pudding, aka the theft of Royal Ruby,

aka Christmas Adventure, as well as a Christmas

tragedy. And as always, when I replay old episodes, I have to apologize for the audio quality.

It took Catherine and me. It took us so much time to figure out how not to sound as though

we were recording from either an airplane

hangar or an executive bathroom. So apologies, this is going to be a little hard on the ears

at first, but you'll get used to it. You'll sink right into it. And I think these are two charming

early episodes about two extremely charming Agatha Christie Christmas-themed short stories.

So sit back and enjoy, and I will see you all next year.

Take care.

Thank you. Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie.

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