Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery

novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie.

I am Kemper Donovan, and in this episode, I will be covering Nemesis, the last Miss

Marple Written, not the last Miss Marple published, of course, but this is a big title within

the canon. I know there are many of you that have been eagerly awaiting this episode.

And as I've already mentioned, I am going to be joined on this episode by friend and colleague

Jamie Burntall. Catherine and I first got to know him through his book, Queering Agatha

Christie, which is a literary analysis of Christie unlike any other real read elsewhere.

And I'm so excited to discuss Nemesis with him. But before we get to the ranking of

this novel, we of course have a lot of other stuff to get through. Starting with a little

bit of housekeeping before we even get to Nemesis, I wanted to touch on at Bertram's Hotel,

actually, a previous Miss Marple that we covered. So obviously skip ahead if you haven't

yet read at Bertram's Hotel a minute or two. But in that episode, Catherine and I did

a whole lot of whining about how it made no sense that Elvira Blake cared about her mother's

first marriage since she was obviously the daughter of her mother's second husband, Lord

Coniston. And as a result of that fact, she would of course inherit upon Lord Coniston's

death, even if she weren't named in his will. However, as one of our listeners pointed

out to us recently, and I'm quoting now from the email, the real must be kept a secret

at all costs issue is the bigamy as UK law treated children born in a marriage free

from defects like bigamy as being the legitimate child of the man their mother was married

to, even in cases where it was perfectly obvious that he was not. So even if it's perfectly

obvious that best Sedgwick was not married to her first husband by the time she had Elvira

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