Interview with Mystery Author Jeffrey Round

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Arts, Books, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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It was a delight to speak to Jeffrey Round--both about his work, and of course, about Agatha Christie. He is every bit as much of a Christie fan as me, and so many of you.... You can visit Jeffrey at his website, or check out his novel The Sulphur Springs Cure directly. To visit and subscribe to the podcast's Patreon page, click here. Loose Lips, the second book in my Ghostwriter Mysteries series, is currently available for purchase. You can also buy The Busy Body, the first book in my Ghostwriter Mysteries series, 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. Visit the podcast on Instagram. Visit me personally at my author website.

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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.
0:14.7	I am Kemper Donovan, and I am so excited to bring you my conversation today with author Jeffrey Round, who is a big
0:23.7	Christy fan. We talked a lot of Christy, and I think you'll enjoy it. I also just wanted to thank
0:29.2	everyone who I met while I was on my tour in the south, in the southern United States. I had so much
0:35.5	fun, and I met so many of you you and I just want all of you to
0:38.3	know how much I treasured each and every one of those interactions. Thank you so much for coming
0:44.5	out to see me and I can't wait to do more of those in the future. Before I get to the interview,
0:50.2	I do of course have some spoiler warnings. The following titles are spoiled during my
0:56.3	conversation with Jeffrey at Bertram's Hotel, Crooked House, Curtain. Do not listen to this
1:02.8	episode, if you have not yet read, Curtain, Five Little Pigs, Halloween Party, ordeal by
1:09.4	Innocence, and sad Cyprus.
1:13.2	And with that, let's go straight to the interview.
1:34.6	I'm so pleased to welcome Jeffrey Round onto the podcast.
1:39.5	Jeffrey is an award-winning author, playwright, and filmmaker from Toronto.
1:42.2	So shout out to all the Canadian listeners out there.
1:43.4	I know there are many of you.
1:50.3	His previous books include the Dan Sharp Mysteries, the Bradford Fairfax Murder Mysteries, and the acclaimed war novel The Honey Locust. He co-founded the Naked Heart Festival, which is an LGBTQ
1:55.9	festival of words, and his first Dan Sharp mystery won the Lambda Award for Best Gay Mystery, while two other
2:03.6	books in that series have been shortlisted for the same prize. One among the many other mystery
2:08.8	novels he's written is Endgame, which he describes as a reinvention of Agatha Christie's, and then
2:13.5	there were none. It resets the story in modern times on an island off the coast of
2:18.1	Seattle, where a planned reunion of a disreputable punk rock band goes very awry. Love that.
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