Agatha Christie's Many Houses

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Caroline Crampton

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🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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A portrait of a writer via her addresses. My new book, A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria, is out now. To find out more and get your copy, visit my website carolinecrampton.com/abodymadeofglass. Join the Shedunnit Book Club for two extra Shedunnit episodes a month plus access to the monthly reading discussions and community: shedunnitbookclub.com/join Mentioned in this episode: — The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie — The Hollow by Agatha Christie — Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie — The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie — The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie — After the Funeral by Agatha Christie — The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie — Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie — Murder in the Mews by Agatha Christie — The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie — The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie — Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie — Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie Sources consulted: — Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks edited by John Curran — Agatha Christie: A Biography by Janet Morgan — Agatha Christie: An English Mystery by Laura Thompson — Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley Shedunnit episodes referenced: — At Home with Agatha Christie — Agatha The Adventuress — Agatha's Archaeologists NB: Links to Blackwell's are affiliate links, meaning that the podcast receives a small commission when you purchase a book there (the price remains the same for you). Blackwell's is a UK bookselling chain that ships internationally at no extra charge. There are no spoilers in this episode. To be the first to know about future developments with the podcast, sign up for the newsletter at shedunnitshow.com/newsletter. The podcast is on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram as @ShedunnitShow, and you can find it in all major podcast apps. Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the next episode. Click here to do that now in your app of choice. Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/agathachristiesmanyhousestranscript. Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.9	whodunits and the creator of enduring characters like Heriel Poirot and Jade Marple.
0:44.0	She is unjustly, slightly less famous for her many successful plays,
0:49.0	but I still think that the Mouse Trap at least, with its record-breaking almost 72-year run
0:54.5	squarely puts her on the map as a playwright even for those who wouldn't consider
0:59.3	themselves dedicated followers of Christie and her her travel writing, her poetry and her broadcasting is
1:06.0	beloved by fans if not by the general public. As a writer of romantic or psychological fiction, she is a little more obscure.
1:14.0	The Mary Westmocot pseudonym, she used for her six novels of that type, does keep it somewhat separate from the rest of her reputation.
1:21.0	But real aficionados still love and respect her work in that arena too.
1:25.8	But Agatha Christie was a very busy woman and as well as all of this literary
1:31.0	activity she had another occupation that she enjoyed greatly, buying and
1:35.6	decorating houses. During what Christie called her plutocratic period in the 1930s,
1:41.6	before complications about tax owing on her earnings in both the US and the UK kicked in,
1:47.3	she bought houses almost as often and as casually as a player in the board game monopoly does.
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