Beware Poppy and Mandragora: Within a Wall by Agatha Christie (with Guest Co-Host Michelle Kazmer)
All About Agatha Christie
Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2024
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
It was a joy to welcome Dr. Michelle Kazmer back on the podcast to discuss an early and unusual Christie short story that contains echoes of so much of what we love about Christie overall. For those in the United States who may be feeling a bit fatigued from all the tryptophan consumed this holiday weekend, just be thankful it's nothing compared to the "sleepytime" embrace of one Isobel Loring....
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:14.3 | I am Kemper Donovan, and this episode is coming to you just in time for Thanksgiving here at the end of 2024. This episode is a little |
| 0:23.0 | late and I just wanted to give you a quick administrative update, which is that I am |
| 0:27.9 | barreling toward a deadline on one of my mystery books. So I've had to devote a bit more time |
| 0:34.0 | to my writing in the past couple of weeks and that is going to be the case for the immediate |
| 0:39.5 | future. So for that reason, the next couple of episodes of all about Agatha are going to come out |
| 0:45.0 | once every three weeks instead of once every two weeks. This is temporary. I will go back to my |
| 0:51.4 | biweekly schedule pretty soon in the new year, in about February of the new |
| 0:56.1 | year. But for this holiday period and the new year, I'll be on this slightly altered schedule, |
| 1:01.7 | and I just want you to give you the heads up on that. This is also probably a good time to mention |
| 1:06.0 | that I am going on tour again for the second book in my mystery series. It's titled Loose Lips. It takes place |
| 1:14.0 | entirely on a boat. So you know there are a ton of Death on the Nile references flying fast and |
| 1:20.0 | furious in the book, but lots of references to other Christie titles as well, since this is me, |
| 1:24.5 | after all. I'm very excited for you all to read it, and I would love to see as many |
| 1:29.1 | of you as possible while I'm out on tour. I won't go through the full rundown now, but starting at the |
| 1:34.8 | end of January, I will be launching that tour here in Los Angeles. I've got two different Los Angeles |
| 1:41.3 | area events back-to-back in Santa Monica and Pasadena. Those are |
| 1:46.1 | happening on Tuesday, January 21st at Diesel, a bookstore in Santa Monica, and then Wednesday, |
| 1:51.8 | January 22nd at Roman's bookstore in Pasadena. Then I'll be going to the fabulous Poisoned |
| 1:58.0 | Pen bookstore in Scottsdale, Arizona, for those of you in the Southwest, |
| 2:03.4 | that is on Monday, January 27th. And then the very next day I'll be going to murder by the book. |
| 2:07.7 | I'm returning to that wonderful mystery bookstore in Houston, Texas on Tuesday, January 28th. |
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