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 I have an interview episode for you.

I am so excited about this is a

has to do with a recent find that I think is going to fascinate all of you.

This is a timely conversation that I had here

with a fellow fan of fictional crime.

Let's just get right to the interview where all will be explained.

My guest today is Karen Robinson, who is a journalist based in London.

Karen founded and ran the Crime Club newsletter

for the Times and Sunday Times newspapers

covering the best of Contemporary Crime Fiction,

and she now serves as a judge for the annual John Crecy Dagger,

the prestigious award given each year by the British Crime Writers Association

for the best first crime novel.

She and the panel have actually just chosen this year's winner, but she can't tell us what

it is just yet.

I love a good mystery of course, and I'm looking forward to finding out who that

winter is but we have something else to discuss today which was the subject of an

article Karen wrote for the Sunday Times recently it has to do with the discovery made in the

archive of the British Psychoanalytical Society and it concerns Agatha Christie

specifically Christie's activities during the First World War, when, as many of you know, she worked as a nurse and later as a dispenser in her native town of Torqui as part of the VAD, the voluntary aid detachment.

Much is made of the fact that this is where Agath Christi became acquainted with poisons,

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