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'm Kemper Donovan.

I'm Catherine Brobeck.

And this week we have a special episode.

We are interviewing our friend of the podcast, Jamie Bernthal,

Agatha Christie's scholar and author, and let's just jump right in and get him on the line.

Great.

We are so excited to welcome Jamie Bernthal to the program.

Jamie is a Christie scholar who runs the International Ag of the

Christie Conference, which is a meeting of Christie Scholars and

officinados and fans and just generally anyone who wants to attend who come from around the world to discuss all things Christie which is where we first met him at the fourth conference in Cambridge

which was two years ago, and you are actually

having your fifth conference this September in Southampton. Is that right?

Yes, that's right. And we very excited now to have a whole new committee, so there are four of us organizing this one.

Oh, that's fantastic. Is there any listeners who are interested in attending that conference, where should they go or what's the best way to find more information about that?

If you go on Twitter and you can look at my phone line which is at J.C. Bontal or you can go on the hashtag

pagata 2019 which is where we talk about the conference. We had an amazing time

at the fourth one so I'm sure the fifth one will be even more fun.

And as everyone who listens to this podcast know, we can never get enough of discussing Christie.

So the other reason why anyone who listens to this

podcast probably recognizes your name is that we reference your book quite a bit

querying Agatha Christie but and this is a bit of a confession here, we've only thus far referenced

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