Ep 306 - Aristotle Detective, by Margaret Doody (Bonus Episode)

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

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🗓️ 28 June 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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You know Aristotle, the Greek philosopher from the 4th century BCE? What if he was a detective who helped solve mysteries? That's exactly what's going on in Margaret Doody's 1978 novel Aristotle Detective.

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0:00.0	This is a Headgun Podcast.
0:04.0	Hey everybody, what are you all going to overdo?
0:29.0	I'm going to ask you to read the book, Andrew.
0:33.0	I read a book called Aristotle Detective by Margaret Dutty.
0:45.0	Why did you go over a hill in the middle of the title?
0:51.0	When I said Aristotle Detective?
0:53.0	The name of the book is just Aristotle Detective.
0:57.0	It's not Aristotle Comma Detective or Aristotle Colin Detective.
1:01.0	It's just Aristotle Detective, which makes it sound like it's his name.
1:05.0	I'm Aristotle Detective. This is my wife Margaret Dutty.
1:09.0	Oh, we are you.
1:13.0	Yeah, it's not Aristotle Detective and the whatever.
1:17.0	I think there are other books in the series.
1:21.0	So this book was published in 1978 and then we went like 30 years until we learned more about what happened to Aristotle.
1:31.0	Other books include Aristotle and poetic justice, see what she did there, Aristotle and the mystery of life, Aristotle and the Ring of Bronze.
1:41.0	And then there are there's a poison and Athens mysteries of elucidus, Aristotle and the Egyptian murders and a cloudy day in Babylon.
1:51.0	People in the chat saying, I'm not here.
1:55.0	I think it was just a minor hangouts thing. You fixed it.
1:57.0	They can't, I fixed it.
1:59.0	Yeah, so the original was published back in 1978.
2:05.0	From what I can tell, it seems like it's mostly been forgotten to the sands of time or whatever the phrase is.
2:13.0	She's got, like it doesn't have a lot of Amazon or goodreads presence, I guess.
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