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All About Agatha Christie

*LIVE!* Episode: Interview with Kemper Donovan, Author of The Busy Body (and Busman's Holidayer)

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Books, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Saturday, April 27th is Independent Bookstore Day here in the United States, and what better way to celebrate than with this live interview from my book tour last week at Schuler Books in Grand Rapids, Michigan?! Special thanks to Elizabeth Bosscher for conducting this interview. I had such a great time sitting down with her. If you'd like to visit or learn more about Schuler Books, which has four locations in Michigan, click here. Please visit and subscribe to the podcast's Patreon page by clicking here. Click here to purchase tickets for my upcoming panel at the Agatha Christie Festival. You can buy my debut mystery novel, The Busy Body, at your bookseller of choice (though please do opt for an indie if you possibly can!) in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia and New Zealand.

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,

0:13.2

Dame Agatha Christie.

0:15.1

I am Kemper Donovan, and I am coming to you live

0:19.0

from Schuller Books in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I have beside me Elizabeth Bosher, who is a bookseller

0:28.2

here at the bookstore. She has worked here for a couple of years. I already absolutely love her.

0:34.4

We've been sitting here together.

0:36.9

As people have trickled in, we've got a wonderful audience

0:40.3

of people in front of us, and I just can't wait to talk about the busy body with all of them

0:46.9

and by extension with all of you which I haven't been able to do other than to promo

0:51.6

events like this kind of non-stop for the last couple of weeks and

0:56.0

I cringe every time I'm doing it because it always feels like I'm taking away from the conversation

1:00.6

having to do with mysteries but for once on this very

1:03.8

episode this live episode here I can talk about the busy body and I will be

1:07.6

talking about mystery as well and that's very exciting to me.

1:10.3

Elizabeth take away. Like Kemper said my name is Elizabeth Bosher and I'm the events coordinator here at Schuller Books.

1:16.8

For those listening on the podcast, Schuller Books is an independent bookstore with four locations

1:21.4

in Michigan in Grand Rapids,

1:23.6

Okamis, Ann Arbor, and West Bloomfield.

1:26.8

So if you're anywhere nearby, we would love for you to stop by.

1:30.2

And for those in our audience,

1:31.6

thank you so much for being here.

1:33.0

We're so excited about this.

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