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All About Agatha Christie

Collecting the Collectors: The Gays of Agatha Christie (Special *PRIDE* Edition... with Bonus Jamie Bernthal!)

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Arts, Books, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2024

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

It's raining long-haired, antique-loving, architecturally-inclined men! And a few women, too! June is Pride month for the LGBTQIA+ community here in the United States, which I took as an opportunity to explore the topic of "gay" characters in Christie... along with revisiting an interview Catherine Brobeck and I did with long-time friend of the podcast, Jamie Bernthal. Enjoy, my dears! The following titles are spoiled to varying degrees in this episode: The Mousetrap, The Rats, "Death by Drowning," "Greenshaw's Folly," After the Funeral, Cards on the Table, Endless Night, Five Little Pigs, Hallowe'en Party, Lord Edgware Dies, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, The Moving Finger, Mrs. McGinty's Dead, A Murder is Announced, Murder is Easy, Nemesis. To visit and subscribe to the podcast's Patreon page, click here. Visit the podcast on Twitter and Instagram. Visit me personally on Facebook at Kemper Donovan Books, or at my personal website. Click here to purchase tickets for my panel at the upcoming Agatha Christie Festival. You can buy my debut mystery novel, The Busy Body, at your bookseller of choice (make it an indie if you possibly can!) in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia and New Zealand.

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0:00.0

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

0:10.4

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

0:15.0

I am Kemper Donovan and Happy Pride listeners.

0:19.6

It is Pride Month here in the United States.

0:22.6

June is our month to celebrate LGBTIA plus pride and empowerment.

0:30.2

I do know that there are other times of the year set aside in other countries around the world,

0:37.0

but the fact that it is Pride Month here in the US gives me a great excuse to do an episode focused on quote unquote gay characters in Agatha Christie.

0:47.6

Yes, it is all about the gays on this episode.

0:50.4

How has it taken me seven years to get here? That is the real question

0:54.1

underlying this episode. I will start by stating what strikes me as the obvious,

0:59.6

which is that I identify as a gay man.

1:02.7

That does not mean that I speak for all gay men

1:06.0

or for anyone other than myself.

1:08.5

But as a self-identifying gay man who loves Agatha Christie. I have some thoughts on this topic and by some thoughts I mean a lot of thoughts.

1:17.6

But before we get into all of that, first things first listeners in that I will be mentioning who the murderers are in most of the

1:25.2

titles I will be discussing. I will be spoiling significant aspects of the

1:30.3

following plays, short stories, and novels by Agatha Christie.

1:35.3

This is a spoiler heavy episode.

1:37.8

So in terms of plays, I will be spoiling the Mouse Trap, though in a very limited way have no fear I am sticking to my

1:44.9

commitment not to spoil the mouse trap in any major way so I will be minorly

1:50.7

spoiling one aspect of the mouse trap and I will be very much

1:54.4

spoiling the rats. In terms of short stories I will be spoiling death by

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