Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single

mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agatha Christie.

I am Kemper Donovan and of course we have already read and reviewed every single mystery

novel written by Agatha Christie, but that does not mean that there isn't more to discuss in the world of Agatha

Christie appreciation and we are covering some new ground in this episode. I was fortunate enough to sit down with booktuber Mara Sinclair.

We discussed what Booktube is and talked a whole lot of Christie. But first I have one item of housekeeping to take care of.

This will be really quick because it's just a correction having to do with my previous episode.

So when I covered in a glass darkly correction having to do with my previous episode.

So when I covered in a glass darkly,

I mentioned how on the official Agatha Christie website

there's this note about how a newspaper incorrectly announced

that Agatha Christie would be reading out this story on the radio, but they had been confusing her with Dorothy Sayers.

That is not actually the case, and I would have known this at the time of recording if I had consulted either Mark Aldridge or Tony Meadower, two of my

Christie experts whose research underlies so much of what I tell you on this podcast.

Alas, I did not consult them in this case, much to my

chagrin because the true story is way more interesting than the false one and

involves a Miss Marple short story that we've already covered. Miss Marple tells a story. Here is what

Mark has to say about this in his book Agatha Christie on screen. It is well known that

she wrote the short mystery Miss Marple tells a story for the radio before its later

appearance in print, but it is less well known that this was a last minute replacement for another

story that the BBC had found unsuitable. After agreeing to a fee of 30 guineas, less than the 50 pounds she had wanted,

Christie sent Ackerley,

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