A *Very Special* Episode: Listener Mail! (Part 1)
All About Agatha Christie
Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
I can't think of a better way to start off the New Year than with messages from all of you. And since there were so many--and I want to take my time with every single one of them--I'll be doing a "part 2" in the near future with more letters! Happy New Year, everyone!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery novel |
| 0:11.9 | written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie. I am Kemper Donovan, and happy new year. |
| 0:17.8 | It is 26. And welcome to another listener mailbag episode. I'm so excited to be |
| 0:25.9 | starting off the year this way. That's right. This entire episode will be taken up reading out |
| 0:30.6 | and responding to correspondence that all of you have sent me over the last few months. |
| 0:35.9 | Actually, there's so much to cover that I was going to do |
| 0:39.4 | this mailback episode all at one time, but there's simply too much. It would have been hours and |
| 0:46.1 | hours and hours and hours long. And while I think many of you, well, I know many of you enjoy |
| 0:52.6 | a three to four hour long episode about a Christie novel or |
| 0:57.4 | play or what have you, doing a four hour listener mailbag episode felt like a bit much |
| 1:03.5 | even for this podcast. So we're going to break it up into two. Consider this part one today. |
| 1:14.5 | I'm so excited. But first, I've got a blanket spoiler warning for you. We will be covering a lot of ground in this episode, which makes |
| 1:19.6 | sense since you all responded to lots of All About Agatha episodes over the last few months. |
| 1:25.2 | So if you're worried about any Christie titles being spoiled, |
| 1:28.2 | mainly in minor ways, but occasionally in major ways, this is definitely not the episode for you. |
| 1:35.4 | Also, as a listener pointed out to me recently, so this is really my first bit of listener |
| 1:39.9 | mail here, but we can treat it as a preamble. We just recently passed the 50-year mark since the |
| 1:46.6 | passing of Agatha Christie herself. That happened on the 12th of January, 1976. It is now 2026, |
| 1:53.9 | and that means that we have had 50 years of Christie's legacy, which is just something to sit back |
| 2:00.3 | and think about for a moment. |
| 2:02.3 | 50 years. Who knows what the next 50 years of Christy fandom and scholarship will bring, |
| 2:09.2 | but I am happy to be a part of it, and for all of you to be a part of it, including by way |
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