And Then There Were 43: Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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It is in no way beginning to look a lot like Christmas, either in the real world or inside the pages of this novel. What it *is* looking a lot like is that rare creature, an honest-to-goodness Agatha Christie locked room mystery! Leave your crackers and crowns at home, but perhaps bring along a sponge or paper towel to help absorb the oodles of blood we encounter in one of Christie's more gruesome murder tableaux. Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him...?

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0:00.0	Welcome to all about Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single
0:10.3	mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime,
0:13.2	Dan Magath the Christie.
0:15.1	I'm Catherine Brobeck.
0:16.4	And I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:18.1	And this week we are visiting yet again one,
0:24.4	Okeopuaro, and we are visiting him sort of incongruously
0:30.3	given the time of season.
0:31.8	We are visiting him in
0:33.4	a cupuro's Christmas.
0:35.4	It's June and it's Christmas time.
0:38.0	Christmas and July is the thing but I guess we can make a
0:42.0	Chrissy for June a thing.
0:45.0	You know, I guess I'm making this a habit here of opening up some of these episodes by quoting
0:50.0	our good friend John Curran, who we just featured in an interview so apparently I
0:56.5	couldn't get enough Curran in my life. You've known that to be the case for a
0:59.5	while. Can't get enough. Dulted Irish town.
1:03.3	Yeah, unfortunately, I wish I could say it.
1:05.0	I wish when quoting him it could be in his accent,
1:07.2	but we can't have everything.
1:09.1	He put it best, I think, as to the Christmas-eeness or lack thereof of this book when he said that originally
1:17.0	this book was actually published during Christmas week with a serialization on both sides of the Atlantic a month earlier.
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