And Now There Is None: The Final State of the Rankings... with John Curran!!

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 152 minutes

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My guest co-host John Curran certainly kept me on my toes (and I never expected to be forced to defend poor Nemesis as much as I was!), but I can truthfully say that having him on was the perfect event for this festive, end-of-year period. Happy holidays to all who celebrate, and please enjoy this very, very special episode.

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0:00.0	Welcome to all about Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery
0:10.2	novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie.
0:14.7	And this is one of those special episodes in which the ranking project takes center
0:20.4	stage, oh yes, it is time for the final state of the rankings of all 66.
0:29.9	of Agatha Christie's mystery novels.
0:33.8	It is very bittersweet to be doing this episode without my late and extremely
0:40.2	lamented partner Catherine Brobeck. We did a state of the rankings episode at the end of every year
0:46.8	of this podcast, but it is time now that the project has been completed to do one more.
0:55.0	Unfortunately, I have a friend of the podcast brave enough to join me in conversation
1:01.4	about those rankings. One of our very best friends over the years, we have relied on this person
1:07.9	time and time again. I am speaking of John Kern, author of Agatha Christie's secret notebooks.
1:16.8	Just one of the oracles we have out there among the pantheon of agathologists who exist.
1:24.4	In the world, I have posted the rankings grid to the podcast's Twitter account at all about the
1:31.8	Dame and to our Instagram account at all about Agatha. I'm also going to throw it on our Facebook
1:38.3	page as well, even though I do not regularly update the podcast Facebook page. It does still exist.
1:45.0	So if you would like to follow along, there is a before and after of the grid which reflects
1:50.6	the conversation that John and I are about to have. But before I get to that conversation,
1:57.7	I would like to do a little bit of housekeeping or maybe a lot of housekeeping because I have
2:03.5	some matters to run through that have cropped up since my last novel episode, which was a while
2:10.8	ago at this point when I discussed curtain with Linda Brobeck, Catherine's mother.
2:16.6	I'm not going to start with curtain, however, because I would like to go in reverse chronological order
2:21.9	starting with the most recent episode on which I goofed. This is going to be the Arata portion
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