Interview with Carla Valentine, Author of Murder Isn't Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

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🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Carla Valentine is a forensic pathologist and a *massive* Agatha Christie fan. These two facts are very much not unrelated, as you will soon discover in our lively and far-ranging discussion.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and
0:08.6	ranking every single mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha
0:12.8	Christie. I am Kemper Donovan and I have another lovely interview for you with
0:19.0	Carla Valentine who has written a book that I am actually quite devastated. She
0:26.0	did not write earlier because I would have referred to it many many times on this
0:30.5	podcast and we only have so many novels left. But that is okay because we all
0:35.8	get to read it and discuss it and there's plenty more conversation to come on
0:41.1	this podcast and with Carla specifically in the transatlantic chat I was
0:46.5	lucky enough to have with her which begins right now.
0:51.2	This interview has been a long time coming listeners and I'm so glad the day is
0:58.9	finally upon us to speak with Carla Valentine. Carla is the author of two books
1:04.6	past mortems and more recently murder is easy the forensics of Agatha
1:10.0	Christie. She is a qualified anatomical pathology technologist which is to
1:15.8	say a mortuary technician or to use the more common term a mortician. She is
1:21.1	also the curator of Bart's pathology museum but just as importantly she is a
1:25.3	long time friend of the podcast. She and Catherine actually connected long
1:29.1	ago over their shared love of so many things including of course Agatha
1:33.4	Christie. So Catherine and I have been looking forward to interviewing Carla
1:36.9	about this book for a while and I've been saying this over and over again on
1:40.2	the podcast but it's because it's true. I so wish the Catherine could be here
1:44.3	today and participating in this conversation because she would have just been
1:47.9	in her element and even though I'm deeply sorry she isn't here I'm grateful
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