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All About Agatha Christie

And Then There Were 36: The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie (a.k.a. Miss Marple is BA-ACK!)

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Praise be: we have at long last arrived at our second Miss Marple novel! We couldn't be more thrilled to revisit St. Mary Mead and its assorted characters, and boy do we get a lot of them in this alternately breezy/bleak story. So let's join our six investigators (no, really--four professional, two amateur) and find out what happens when people stop being polite, and start getting murder-y.

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0:00.0

Welcome to all about Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single

0:10.4

mystery novel written by the Queen of Kran,

0:14.0

Day Magathichristy.

0:16.1

I'm Catherine Brobeck.

0:17.2

And I'm Kemper Donovan.

0:18.3

And this week, Kemper is so excited

0:21.8

because guess what we are doing.

0:24.0

Guess where we are going.

0:26.3

That's right.

0:27.3

We are marbling.

0:29.0

We are a marbling.

0:30.8

At long last, our drought is over the heavens have opened and the rain is pouring down

0:39.6

I know and it's the it's the beginning of a new era because we are going to get so much

0:46.6

marble after this absolutely we are discussing the body in the library.

0:53.0

Our second, Miss Marble novel,

0:55.3

of course our first was the Murder at the Vicarage.

0:58.6

Oh so many moons ago on this podcast

1:00.7

and within the Christie Cannon 12 years earlier in 1930.

1:05.0

When was the body in the library published, Catherine?

1:08.0

It was published, guess what?

1:10.0

Not by Crime Club first.

1:12.0

It was published actually in the US first in

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