Click Clack Click Clack DING: The (Fictional) Secretaries of Agatha Christie (with Guest Co-Host Helen Frank)
All About Agatha Christie
Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
When A+++ podcast listener Helen Frank contacted me about doing a themed episode on the secretaries of Agatha Christie, little did I know there would be so much to talk about. And little did she know that I would hoodwink her into co-hosting the episode in question! But I'm so glad I did. I think you'll be as well.
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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. |
| 0:15.0 | I am Kemper Donovan. |
| 0:16.6 | And I am Helen Frank. |
| 0:18.5 | And Helen Frank has joined me today to talk about the secretaries of Agatha Christie. |
| 0:27.2 | Helen is a longtime listener and fan of the podcast, and we have corresponded many, many times, as I have with so many of you out there. |
| 0:39.2 | I told you all this a little bit at the end of my previous episode, |
| 0:42.4 | but she reached out to me and said, |
| 0:44.7 | you know what would be a really great themed episode, |
| 0:47.1 | because I've now gotten into the habit of doing these themed episodes of Agatha Christie, |
| 0:51.1 | you should do something on the secretaries of Agatha Christie. |
| 0:55.4 | But she didn't just give me a great idea. She gave me a ton of research, so much research that I told her she had to |
| 1:02.5 | come on to the podcast and do this episode on the secretaries of Agatha Christie with me. |
| 1:08.8 | Even though, you know, she was just coming at me as a listener, |
| 1:11.6 | this was not something that she asked for. And she even mentioned when she accepted my offer to |
| 1:18.3 | come on the podcast that there might be a little bit of trepidation, but, you know, Agatha Christie was |
| 1:23.0 | all about fortune favoring the bold. She valued courage in her plucky heroines. So Helen is taking a page |
| 1:30.2 | out of Agatha Christie's own books and joining me here on this podcast. So welcome, Helen. I'm so |
| 1:36.9 | thrilled that you are here. Thank you. And thank you very much for having me. This is, |
| 1:40.6 | this is slightly odd to the podcast talking back at me, but I'll get you straight. |
| 1:46.3 | The parasycial relationship has gone full social. |
| 1:51.4 | All right, well, I'm going to tell you all a little bit about Helen before we get started. |
| 1:56.0 | Helen is a third generation, Aga the Christie fan. Her grandmother and mother are voracious readers, |
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