Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery novel written by The Queen of Crime, De Meggath the Christie, I'm Catherine Brobeck, and I'm

Kemper Donovan. And this week we are tackling another quarrel. This time it is evil under the sun.

This is an important Christie to some people.

But we should take a moment to mention something that will also be important to many of our

listeners, which is that we have a special episode coming up.

Normally we wait till the end of our podcast to tell you what we're doing next, but we wanted

to make sure everyone was aware that we will be speaking with none other than

Sophie Hanna who in addition to being a best-selling author of numerous mystery and

thriller titles is the author the Christie Estate chose to expand the Poirot verse

with three novels thus far featuring our favorite Belgian detective and while we won't

be covering those novels on this podcast, since they of course weren't written by Christie herself,

we're obviously intrigued by them and the process that brought them to life, and we've been looking forward to speaking with Sophie for quite some time.

So we're thrilled to agree to join us for a phone conversation,

which will be featuring as a special episode in the weeks to come.

Okay, so Evil Under the Sun was first published in June 1941 by Our Friends at Collins Crime Club

and in the U.S. in October of the same year.

Though I would like to note, per our friend John Curran, that apparently was written as early as 1938. This was

still around the time where she was banking these things so she was writing

multiple ones per year and then they weren't necessarily coming out immediately

after she wrote them.

So that's fairly significant.

I think it was at the end of 1938, but still that's a good two-plus years before it actually

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