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All About Agatha Christie

*Crossover Episode* with The Swinging Christies (!!): Ranking the 1960s Novels of Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Arts, Books, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Did you know that Superman's appearance on I Love Lucy is considered by some to be the first crossover episode of television? In that case, I was blessed with the appearance of *TWO* supermen on this crossover episode of All About Agatha and The Swinging Christies, in which I sat down (in Agatha Christie's birthplace and on Agatha Christie's birthday, no less!) with co-hosts Mark Aldridge and Gray Robert Brown. Together, we discussed--and debated--the ranking of Christie's novels from the 1960s, which they've spent the past year considering in glorious detail. I couldn't think of a better way to spend 90 minutes, and only wish it could have been longer. Enjoy! The following titles are spoiled (to varying degrees) over the course of this episode: At Bertram's Hotel, The Body in the Library, By the Pricking of My Thumbs, A Caribbean Mystery, Cat Among the Pigeons, The Clocks, Elephants Can Remember, Endless Night, Hallowe'en Party, Hercule Poirot's Christmas, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, Murder is Easy, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Nemesis, The Pale Horse, Passenger to Frankfurt, Postern of Fate, They Do It With Mirrors, Third Girl. You can find more information about and links to Dr. Mark Aldridge's newest book, Agatha Christie's Marple: Expert on Wickedness at his website. You can pre-order Loose Lips, the second book in my Ghostwriter Mysteries series, here in the United States. 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 author website. 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. You can find Mark and Gray on X and Instagram under @Christie_Time, and at their website.

Transcript

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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 Agath the Christie. I am

0:14.2

Kemper Donovan and today I am joined by two very special co-hosts. We are

0:18.8

having a crossover episode here. Please introduce yourselves my lovely co-host. I'm Mark Aldridge.

0:25.9

We've met before, Kemper. I hope you might remember. But yes, so I've written and read and researched a lot about Agatha Christie over the years.

0:36.1

And you're the co-hosting representative.

0:38.1

Oh yes, yes, that's important.

0:41.4

Over the Swinging Christie's along with me, Gray Robert Brown.

0:44.6

And listeners, this is Kemper making an insertion from the future here as I edit this episode.

0:51.8

But my good friend Mark Aldridge is too modest to polite a person

0:57.2

apparently to plug his book his new book that just came out at the top of this episode

1:01.9

so I'm going to do it for him right now.

1:04.0

As some of you already know, Mark wrote a book all about Miss Marple. It is called Agathicristy's

1:09.9

Marple expert on wickedness. The book is dedicated to Catherine Brobeck, which I find extremely moving, and Catherine's dark marble theory gets a big old shout out in the text of the book. Like all of Mark's work, it is encyclopedic and well researched and engaging and just overall fantastic, fascinating reading. So I wholeheartedly recommend it to all of you. It is currently available to purchase in the UK,

1:35.3

and I believe it's already available in the US

1:37.6

as an e-book and an audiobook.

1:39.7

As for the hard copy, it is available to pre-order in the US. It will be out shortly at the end of

1:45.7

this month, at the end of October, just in time for Halloween here in the United States.

1:49.7

I have included relevant links and the notes to this episode. Now is also an excellent time to give you some

1:55.9

spoiler warnings because Mark Gray and I get in depth here on a lot of titles with tons of spoilers.

2:03.1

Mainly, we stick to books from the 1960s

2:06.4

that will come as no surprise to listeners

2:08.6

of the Swinging Christie's,

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