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Shedunnit

Mary Westmacott

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes, Agatha Christie didn’t want to be Agatha Christie. Find links to all the books and sources mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/marywestmacott. Become a member of the Shedunnit Book Club and get bonus audio, listen to ad free episodes and join a book-loving community at shedunnitshow.com/bookclub. Books and sources: —The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie —The Big Four by Agatha Christie —The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie —The Mysterious Mr Quin by Agatha Christie —Giant’s Bread by Mary Westmacott —“The Lady Vanishes” — episode 4 of Shedunnit about Christie’s disappearance —Rosalind Hicks’ article about Mary Westmacott —Unfinished Portrait by Mary Westmacott —The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie —And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie —The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie —An Autobiography by Agatha Christie —The Rose and the Yew Tree  by Mary Westmacott —Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie —Absent in the Spring by Mary Westmacott —Agatha Christie: The Woman and her Mysteries by Gillian Gill —“A Hidden Body in the Library: Mary Westmacott: Agatha Christie, and Emotional Violence” by Sarah E. Whitney from Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol 29 Number 1, Spring 2011 —Agatha Christie: A Biography by Janet Morgan To be the first to know about future developments with the podcast, sign up for the newsletter at shedunnitshow.com/newsletter. The podcast is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram as @ShedunnitShow, and you can find it in all major podcast apps. Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the next episode. Click here to do that now in your app of choice. Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/marywestmacotttranscript. Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Stream your favorite crime all the time on Pluto TV.

0:04.0

The investigation is ongoing.

0:06.0

Uncover true crime documentaries.

0:08.0

Well, this is interesting.

0:09.0

Do some serious time with bingable dramas.

0:12.0

My name's Gil Grissom.

0:13.0

I'm with the Las Vegas Crime Law.

0:15.0

Everything from CSI.

0:16.0

We got you.

0:17.0

To police intercepts.

0:18.0

Police in the dog.

0:19.0

There are loads of channels

0:21.0

dedicated to the crime shows you love.

0:23.4

That's what I do.

0:25.4

The world be easy.

0:26.4

Stream all day with nothing to pay.

0:28.8

Pluto TV. In 1930, any serious fan of detective fiction would have been able to tell you that Agatha Christie

0:40.5

published just the one novel that year, the Murder at the Vicarage. the career. It was both the first full-length Miss Marple story, and it also marked a return to the true

0:56.2

who-done-it form, after a few more thriller-esque books like The Big Four and the Seven Dials

1:01.4

mystery.

1:02.4

Nobody could accuse Christie of being unproductive either.

1:05.9

As well as this novel, she also had a volume of short stories published in 1930 as well.

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