A Very Special Episode: Interview with Mark Aldridge, Author of a Brand-New Poirot Reference Book

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Books, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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It's been a while since we've had Mark on our show, but we couldn't pass up the opportunity to fawn over his new book, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World. This also gave us as good an excuse as any to chatter on about Poirot for an hour or so.... If you feel so inclined (and we wager you will), go to https://bookshop.org to (pre-)order a copy for yourself, if you don't have one already.

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0:40.2	mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime,
0:43.2	Dame Agathic Christie, I'm Catherine Broebuck.
0:46.0	I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:47.2	Oh, and we have a dear, dear friend joining us this week,
0:51.7	don't we, Camper?
0:53.1	We certainly do.
0:54.7	Mark Aldridge, the oft-quoted scholar and academic of Agatha Christie, who has now two books under his belt.
1:04.7	We so often reference his first book, Agatha Christie on screen, but we were lucky enough
1:10.3	to sit down with him on a Zoom call, of course, and discuss his second book.
1:16.1	We will get into the nitty gritty of what this book is and everything about it in just a moment,
1:20.6	so hold for a second while we go all electronic in our Zoom conversation with Mark and we'll see on the other side.
1:29.0	So there's really no need to introduce our guest today
1:32.0	since we mentioned his name on pretty much every single
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