Interview with Marci Kay Monson, Author of the New Children's Book, Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Arts, Books, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Marci Kay Monson has created something very interesting in this children's picture-book version of The Mysterious Affair at Styles. I can't think of a better way to start off what I hope is a long-running discussion of YA mystery, here on the podcast. You can check out Marci's book on her website here. You can pre-order Loose Lips, the second book in my Ghostwriter Mysteries series, here in the United States. To visit and subscribe to the podcast's Patreon page, click here. Visit the podcast on Twitter and Instagram. Visit me personally on Facebook at Kemper Donovan Books, or at my author website. You can buy my debut mystery novel, The Busy Body, 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.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast, dedicated to reading and ranking every single
0:10.4	mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime,
0:13.1	Dame Agatha Christie.
0:14.7	I'm Kemper Donovan, and on this episode
0:17.4	I am interviewing the author Marcy K Monson,
0:21.8	whose children's picture Book just came out a few days ago. This picture book is titled
0:28.8	Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Stiles. That's right, Marcy took Agatha the with illustrations by the supremely talented Greg Paprocki.
0:44.5	I want to mention his name up top even though he is not part of this interview since the illustrator is such a key role,
0:51.0	obviously, within a children's picture book, and we do talk about him and his
0:54.9	work in our conversation. So a few prefatory notes here before we get into that
1:00.9	interview in terms of spoilers this will come as no surprise, but if you have not yet read the
1:07.0	mysterious Affair and Stiles and you were worried about being spoiled, this is not the episode for you.
1:12.8	Make sure that you have read the mysterious Affair
1:14.5	It Styles before you listen to my conversation with Marcy
1:17.0	because we get into it.
1:19.1	I also want to note that this is the first in what will be a multi episode series on the podcast focusing on
1:28.0	why a mystery young adult mystery as a subset of the mystery genre overall.
1:34.0	I've been meeting to do this for a while.
1:36.0	I talked about this a little bit at the end of my last episode,
1:39.0	but I think that a lot of mystery readers first came to mystery when they were children, not all, but many.
1:46.2	So there are a lot of beloved YA mysteries out there, and I think it's going to be a lot of fun
1:52.1	discussing those titles, delighting over them
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