Interview with Steen Just, Wikipedia Administrator for Danish-Language Agatha Christie Articles

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

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🗓️ 28 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Steen Just is a Danish gentleman who is passionate about Agatha Christie--so much so that he has spent his retirement contributing hugely to the Danish-language Wikipedia articles on Agatha Christie. I had a great time talking with him about his unique perspective on our favorite author.

The following Christie titles are spoiled to some degree in this episode: By the Pricking of My Thumbs, Endless Night, Lord Edgware Dies, A Murder is Announced, and The Thumbmark of St. Peter. We also talk in semi-spoilery ways about The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup, and The Documents in the Case by Dorothy Sayers.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and drinking every single mystery novel
0:10.9	written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agatha Christie. I am Kemper Donovan, and today I am bringing
0:17.4	you a fantastic interview episode. We are going to be speaking about Christy in translation. We're going to Northern Europe, get very excited. But first, before I even introduce my guest, let's talk some spoilers. In this episode, the following Christy titles will be spoiled to varying degrees. By the pricking of my thumbs, endless night,
0:40.1	Lord Edward dies, a murder is announced, and the short story, the thumb mark of St. Peter.
0:47.3	I should also let you know that we have two non-Christy mysteries that will also be spoiled. I don't always warn about these, but I try to
0:56.9	if I possibly can. A mystery spoiler is a mystery spoiler. They are the chestnut man by the Danish
1:02.7	author Sorens Weistroop. That may also be a spoiler as to where my guest is from. And the
1:09.0	documents in the case by Golden Age mystery author Dorothy Sayers.
1:14.5	As you can probably tell, this was a wide-ranging conversation that I had with my guest,
1:18.5	so let's get right to it.
1:40.5	My guest today is a Christy super fan and a listener of the All About Agatha podcast, who I got to know over email, just as I've gotten to know so many of you.
1:46.8	And I think his Christie origin story will sound familiar to many of you. He read his first Christie novel when he was 10 years old. It was the Seven Dials Mystery in case you were wondering.
1:51.5	And he went on to read every single one of Christie's novels before he was 18, or at least
1:57.3	every single one of them that had been released by that point.
2:04.9	By my reckoning, he turned 18 in 1971 or thereabout,
2:07.8	so he really only had a few more novels to go at that point.
2:10.0	And there's no need to be coy about his age because it was the first thing that he mentioned
2:12.1	when I asked him to tell me about himself
2:13.8	for purposes of this very introduction.
2:16.8	Steen Eust is 73 years old.
2:20.0	He is Danish, which is to say he's from Denmark, and he worked at a university for many years
2:25.8	teaching history and social science.
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