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 in this episode I was fortunate enough to interview Sophie Hanna,

no stranger to the podcast, either recently or in years past. Sophie has a new book out,

and we discussed the book, we discussed Agatha Christie, you know the drill at this point.

We even have an extended gush fest about Death on the Nile, I think it'll all appreciate.

The novel, that is not the Kenneth Branagh Future Film Extravaganza, which is out in theaters

in the US today. I have not seen it yet, but I cannot wait. And before I get all sidetracked,

let's just move things right along and go straight to the interview.

So I am sitting down once again, yet again, with our dear, dear friend Sophie Hanna,

who we've spoken to so many times at this point about so many things.

We've spoken about her puaro continuation novels. We didn't episode about one of the many

standalone mystery slash thrillers that she writes. We of course even had her on to guest co-host

quite recently for passenger Frankfurt, which was an unmitigated delight. But we actually,

believe it or not, have never spoken about Sophie Hanna's long-running mystery series,

because she does indeed have a series that has been going on for quite some time now,

with a pair of detectives who carry on from book to book. And I'm going to just go ahead and call

it the Zailer and Waterhouse series, because that's what others have called it. I believe that the first

of these was published when she published her first mystery, which is called Little Face in 2006.

And by my reckoning, Sophie, you went on to write one of these mysteries every year for the next

11 years through 2016. And then you took a break, because you had a lot of other stuff going on.

But you are back. Waterhouse and Zailer, Zailer and Waterhouse. I want to give them equal billing

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