Klaxon Bell Bonanza: The Actress by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

If you're a longtime listener of this podcast, you'll know never to trust an actor in a Christie story. So what happens when not one but two actors feature among the rather small cast of suspects? A lot, as it turns out, in this early short story that showcases Christie's unique ability to spin seemingly endless variations on a single puzzle....

In addition to the titular story, the following Christies are spoiled in the course of this episode:

"Miss Marple Tells a Story”

"The Affair at the Bungalow”

"Murder in the Mews”

Cat Among the Pigeons

Three Act Tragedy

Death in the Clouds

And Then There Were None

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Lord Edgware Dies

Evil Under the Sun

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Transcript

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0:00.0	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.
0:14.7	I am Kemper Donovan and on this episode I have a new Agatha Christie short story for you.
0:21.9	We will be covering the actress by Agatha Christie, also known as a
0:26.7	trap for the unwary. But first, I won't spend a long time on this, but I mentioned in my last episode that tickets are now on sale for the Ag of the Christie Festival in Torqui in September.
0:40.0	My event was close to selling out and then there were an infusion of seats, so there are still some seats available.
0:46.8	These two seem to be going quickly, but I just want to encourage anyone who hasn't yet visited the site to do so. You can click on the link I've provided in the
0:55.3	notes. I would love to see you there. We will be crowning Agathicristy's greatest screen adaptation. It's going to be so much fun. I am going on tour very shortly for two
1:05.7	weeks in April for my debut mystery novel The Busy Body. Perhaps you've heard me talk about it. Perhaps you've read it at this point.
1:13.0	Or perhaps you'd like to get a signed copy of the book
1:15.8	and would like to hear me talk about it a little bit more in depth.
1:18.8	In that case, you are in luck.
1:20.9	I'll be in New York, both Manhattan and Long Island on April 9th and
1:25.3	April 11th. I'll be in Connecticut in two different locations in Avon and
1:30.0	Madison both on Friday, April 12th.
1:33.8	And at the second of those events in Madison,
1:35.9	I will be in conversation with Lauren E. Rico,
1:38.5	author of Familia.
1:40.4	I'll be in Massachusetts on Monday, April 15th, in Maine, on Tuesday, April 16th, and then on April 18th, I'm headed to Michigan
1:49.9	Grand Rapids where I will be recording a live episode of this very
1:54.7	podcast. The next day I'll be in Perrysburg, Ohio and the day after that I am
2:00.6	back in Michigan in Ann Arbor where I will be speaking in conversation with
2:06.0	Colleen Cambridge who is the author of the Philadelphia Bright mysteries
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