All About the Dedications of Agatha Christie
All About Agatha Christie
Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2023
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Get ready for another panoramic episode, in which I take full stock of the Christie canon from the unusual perspective of the dedications she (usually) inserted at the front of her books. I even managed to unearth some unsolved (by me, anyway) mysteries....
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to all about Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking, every single mystery |
| 0:11.1 | novel written by the queen of crime, Dame Agatha Christie. |
| 0:15.8 | I am Kemper Donovan and I am back from my family vacation. |
| 0:20.4 | I hope you all enjoyed the summer rerun episode that I aired. |
| 0:24.8 | I may be airing another one of those in August. |
| 0:27.0 | We shall see how the summer goes. |
| 0:29.1 | And for today, I have something new and exciting for you. |
| 0:33.4 | This is going to be another holistic episode where I am taking stock of the Christie |
| 0:39.4 | over as a whole. |
| 0:41.4 | Today I am talking all about the dedications of Agatha Christie because, as we all know, |
| 0:49.0 | Agatha Christie published a lot of books, 66 full length mystery novels and much besides |
| 0:54.6 | that. |
| 0:55.6 | And she often, though not always, included dedications at the front of those books. |
| 1:01.0 | And sometimes Catherine and I would mention those dedications when we were reviewing |
| 1:06.4 | her novels and doing our ranking exercise and being very systematic about things. |
| 1:11.9 | But we didn't often discuss the dedications. |
| 1:14.0 | We certainly didn't always discuss them. |
| 1:16.4 | And I think they're actually an interesting artifact within Christie's novels because |
| 1:22.0 | they give us a sense of where she was in her life and who she was speaking to and close |
| 1:28.3 | with when she was publishing these various books. |
| 1:32.5 | It's just a slightly different angle into the canon than any we've taken before on this |
| 1:36.9 | podcast. |
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