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Ep 066 - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2014

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Agatha Christie is the owner of numerous superlatives: best-selling novelist, influential mystery writer, criminally successful playwright. Also, did we mention she's a dame?

Her novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, written in the 1930s, endures not only for its fanciful cast of characters (including the lovable detective Hercule Poirot) but also for its subversion of the murder mystery genre. In short: read this one.

We spoil the heck out of this one's ending. Discussion of the book requires it. You've been warned!

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0:00.0

While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale,

0:05.1

they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.

0:10.4

Plus, these are books you should have read by now.

0:30.0

Hey, welcome to Overdoos. This is a podcast, but the books have been meaning to read. My name is Craig.

0:39.8

My name is Andrew and we're here to read the books that you have in writing.

0:46.1

Can we get the energy level up a little bit? Let's read some books.

0:50.4

Let's read those books.

0:53.3

I want to play some jock jams. I just tried to hum jock jams and I messed up.

0:57.4

Why don't you jock jams me and I'll explain the premise of the book.

1:04.4

So, what we do every week is one of us reads a book and then explains it to the other one

1:09.6

into the audience and everybody has a really good time and then sometimes we move it, move it.

1:16.3

Read! That's why book jams.

1:19.7

That's my question.

1:24.0

Craig, tell me what you read this week.

1:26.8

Okay, so then let's talk about other stuff.

1:30.4

Great. I thought I was reading the first Agatha Christian novel.

1:35.1

You said you were. I was fairly certain I was. I was not. I was reading the sixth Agatha Christian

1:42.8

novel. I'm fairly certain. Pretty close. Yeah, you know, it's it was called the murder of Roger

1:50.8

Acroid. I think I'm pronouncing that correctly. It was written in 1926 by Dame Agatha Christi.

2:01.5

Dame, that's the best. Like I didn't I guess it makes sense that the like the female counterpart

2:09.6

of a knight would be a Dame, but I just never thought about it. I think like I didn't know that

2:15.6

there were Dame commanders. I think it's the best. I mean Dame Grant Cross is technically better,

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