Huzzah! The (Fictional) Veterans of Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Books, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Captains = good. Commanders = bad. Just two revelations made in the course of a very fun episode to research and record. I hope you enjoy. And happy Thanksgiving to all those in the United States! Here is a link to Brad Friedman's brilliant blog post from 2022, about the military men of Christie. You can now pre-order Sweet Spot, the third book in my Ghostwriter Mysteries series! (Coming out July 2026.) To visit and subscribe to the podcast's Patreon page, click here. Visit the podcast on Instagram, and me personally at my author website. Loose Lips, the second book in my Ghostwriter Mysteries series, is currently available for purchase. You can also buy the first book in the series, The Busy Body, in paperback 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and drinking, every single mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie.
0:15.8	I am Kemper Donovan, and I have quite the episode for you today. It is time to talk about the fictional
0:24.8	veterans of Agatha Christie. Happy Thanksgiving to all those in the United States. I'm happy
0:32.3	to be getting this episode out in time for the long Thanksgiving weekend. I know it can help to have some long podcast episodes
0:39.3	to listen to, to get through the holiday period. So consider this my gift to you in acknowledgement
0:45.6	of how thankful I feel to still be doing this podcast nearly 10 years now after Catherine
0:51.7	Brobeck and I started it. I've got a few preliminaries to get out of the way
0:56.6	first, however. A few of you in the UK have reached out to me to let me know that you've been
1:03.6	having some technical difficulties listening to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, specifically in the
1:10.1	UK. I am working on those technical difficulties.
1:13.4	I have figured out what I need to do, but it requires altering all of the files in the back
1:19.7	catalog of the podcast, which is now over 300 episodes. So that's going to take a little bit of
1:24.7	time. In the interim, if you're still having issues,
1:28.4	if your episodes are cutting off several minutes before the end, you could always go to Spotify
1:34.1	in the UK and listen there. The glitch does not seem to be happening on Spotify, but I just
1:40.2	wanted to let you all know that I am aware of it and working on it. I've got a trigger
1:45.0	warning for you. I do mention suicide and self-harm at several points throughout this episode,
1:51.8	so just be aware of that. And I also would like to give everyone a blanket spoiler. This is one of
1:57.6	my themed episodes, so I am covering a lot of ground here within the Christie Canon,
2:03.4	and there are just spoilers up and down, left and right.
2:05.9	So if you are worried about spoilers of anything, novels, short stories, etc., this may not be the episode for you.
2:13.3	I also have to thank friend of the podcast, Brad Friedman, who runs the excellent mystery-themed
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