A Very Special Episode: Interview with Martin Edwards, Scholar of Agatha Christie... and Much More!

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Books, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

We were thrilled to speak with Martin Edwards, one of the foremost scholars of detective fiction of the Golden Age. He is also a mystery novelist in his own right, and the current President of the Detection Club. What is the Detection Club, you ask? Take a listen and find out! This episode is sponsored by Best Fiends.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery
0:09.3	novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie.
0:13.0	I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:14.0	I'm Katherine Brubach.
0:15.8	And this is a special episode because we are not covering any sort of a text.
0:20.2	We did an interview, didn't we, Katherine?
0:22.6	Oh my gosh.
0:23.6	Did we ever, with the most delightful of guests?
0:28.2	And you know, Kemper, we talked about this when we talked about the book, The Floating
0:32.6	Admiral, which our Patreon listeners will recall.
0:36.9	Those in the know.
0:37.9	I know.
0:38.9	I know.
0:39.9	Never miss an opportunity to do a Patreon blog, right?
0:42.3	The super, super hip Patreon listeners.
0:45.9	Thank you all of you.
0:48.0	But the floating Admiral was a project of, in fact, the Detection Club.
0:54.0	Indeed.
0:55.0	Yes, we talk about it at great length in that episode on Patreon, but we haven't really
0:59.9	had much of a reason to talk about it yet in our regular podcast, but that day has come
1:04.8	upon us.
1:05.8	The Detection Club was a group of mystery authors who got together in the early 30s.
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