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All About Agatha Christie

A Very Special (Anniversary) Episode: The State of Our Rankings

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

How is it possible that another year has passed? We lay the blame squarely on Dame Agatha, whose light prose and masterful puzzles have made the months slip silkily on by.... ! It's time for another nerd-fest as we assess the state of our rankings, having just passed the three-year mark (!!) on our literary trek through the Christie-verse. We hope you all have as much fun listening to this podcast as we do creating it. Onward, to Year 4!

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0:00.0

Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single

0:09.7

mystery novel written by The Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie.

0:13.0

I'm Kemper Donovan.

0:14.0

I'm Catherine Broback.

0:15.0

And for three years now, we have been introducing our podcast thusly

0:21.0

with that emphasis on rankings and to celebrate our third year

0:25.8

anniversary as we celebrated our first and our second we are doing a rankings

0:32.1

focused episode.

0:34.2

The third anniversary gift temper is leather.

0:38.0

I hope you got me something exciting.

0:41.0

Yeah, so we have been doing this podcast for three years now and over the course of the last year covered another 10 titles.

0:51.0

Interestingly, Catherine, I was looking at this and in our first year we covered 15

0:56.1

titles. In our second year we covered 13 titles and in the last year we covered 10 titles.

1:02.0

So we're slowing down a little bit,

1:04.6

but I'm hopeful that we will be picking up the speed again

1:09.3

because the goal, of course, is always to cover one novel per month.

1:15.0

Yeah, so that we would be...

1:17.0

I'll also note that we were a little over-eager the first year

1:22.0

and we're trying to do a novel every three weeks and it

1:27.2

turned out that was a lot. This is true I think that we actually even covered the

1:32.0

secret adversary Christie's second novel, immediately after the

1:35.2

mysterious Separate Styles, because at the beginning of this endeavor we were thinking we would just

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