Chapter 17: Agatha Christie, featuring Jessica Chaffin

The Dead Authors Podcast

Paul F. Tompkins

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🗓️ 16 April 2013

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Chapter 17: Who's our guest this time round? It's no mystery! It's Dame Agatha Christie (Jessica Chaffin)! Can H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) get to the bottom of Dame Agatha's strange disappearance from 3-14 December, 1926? YES!

Thanks to The Time Travel Mart and 826LA.

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0:00.0	This Podcast is intended as Entertainment for Grownups and to spread awareness of 826 LA, a non-profit writing and tutoring center for children ages 6 to 18. For a full schedule of 826 LA's events and programs, including the Echo Park Time Travel Mart, visit 826.org.
0:16.4	And now here is the host of the Dead Authors Podcast, Mr. H.G. Wells. G. Wells. G. G. G. G. G. Welles.
0:23.0	Greetings gentle listener and good podcast to you.
0:26.7	A very good podcast indeed though I say so myself.
0:30.0	The myself to whom I refer is of course the noted author H.G. Wells and the podcast to which I referred prior to that reference is none other than that one to which you currently listen the Dead Authors Podcast.
0:41.0	What's that you say? You find my opening remarks needlessly convoluted.
0:45.6	In point of fact, I have neither need for nor interest in your feedback, which, come to think of it,
0:50.8	I shouldn't even be able to hear.
0:52.8	Odd.
0:53.8	And furthermore, the twists and turns that comprise my welcome are in fact a clever tribute
0:59.1	to our guest this go round, the Queen of Crime herself, Dame Agatha Christie.
1:04.6	It is often said of mystery writers that the best of them start their stories with the ending
1:08.6	and work backwards.
1:09.6	Well, did you know that the same holds true for time travelers?
1:13.0	You didn't, I'd wager. I imagine the overwhelming majority of you have never traveled through time.
1:18.5	Not even once! Oh, how I pity you! I have time travelled, of course. Loads of times. Oh, come down. No tears. It's not as bad as all that for you. On the bright side, at least you created an entire genre of fiction so wildly popular that it continues to thrive over a century after,
1:36.4	oh dreadfully sorry, just winding you up a bit there, that one was about me as well.
1:41.3	At any rate, I recall a recent temporal sojourn where I decided to start at the end and work backwards.
1:47.0	Rather than pick a person or event of note, as is my want, I selected a completely ordinary human being and undertook to study the events of his life from the perspective of his deathbed.
1:57.0	Now you may say that sounds a bit ghoulish and you wouldn't be entirely wrong.
2:01.0	But this is science and so we must steal ourselves to face the
2:04.6	unpleasant in order to expand the scope of our knowledge, to truly understand
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