Death on the Nile: Chapters 1-9

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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It's time for a new book! It's time for the Queen of Crime. It's time for Hercule Poirot. It's time for some international intrigue. It's time for Death on the Nile! This week we talk about what makes Christie so good (and enduring), her approach to introducing characters in this book, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm David Kern.
0:03.5	I'm Heidi White.
0:05.7	And that brief deafening silence is the absence of Tim McIntosh here on Close Reads.
0:11.5	This is Close Reads. It's a podcast for the incurable reader.
0:16.9	And in this episode, we are going to be starting our conversation about death on the Nile.
0:22.2	Agatha Christie's great novel, one of her best, I think.
0:25.5	And I want to talk about the Agatha Christie canon here in a second.
0:28.9	But we need to talk about Tim's absence, Heidi.
0:32.1	Tim couldn't be here.
0:33.3	Do we know?
0:34.7	He couldn't join us.
0:35.9	You know, the thing is, I have so much rage about it.
0:37.6	He maybe could have.
0:39.3	He chose not to.
0:41.9	Are my throwing, is that too strong, too strongly put?
0:44.7	No, I think that that was, I think that that's just accuracy that you're going for, just honesty, which is a virtue.
0:51.3	Yeah, he just got back from vacation and he's like, oh, I'm jetlock.
0:54.9	Aruba.
0:56.3	I've been in Aruba.
0:58.2	He thought he was going to get away with not being in an episode, but then you and I had to postpone our regular recording time.
1:04.2	And then he was like, I got to travel.
1:06.7	I got work meetings.
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