Ranking the Murderers of Agatha Christie
All About Agatha Christie
Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
I loved everything about this nerdiest of episodes... other than the fact that Catherine Brobeck wasn't here to delight in this exercise alongside me. I know she would have dug it. I hope you do, too.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to all about Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking. |
| 0:09.5 | Every single mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie. |
| 0:14.4 | I am Kemper Donovan and I am so excited that this is an episode focusing on the ranking |
| 0:21.8 | of Agatha Christie novels. |
| 0:23.7 | A project so central to the mission of this podcast that I mention every time I do my |
| 0:29.3 | little intro at the beginning of each episode. |
| 0:31.8 | But it's been a while since I've been able to focus on the ranking of Agatha Christie's |
| 0:37.4 | novels. Since all 66 of Christie's novels have already been ranked on this podcast. |
| 0:43.6 | However, that does not mean that we can't still dabble in some rankings fun. |
| 0:48.7 | And I've been meaning to do this episode for a while. |
| 0:50.7 | I'm so excited to finally be bringing it to you. |
| 0:53.3 | I will be ranking the murderers who feature within the 66 books written by Agatha Christie. |
| 1:00.7 | So this is a slightly different exercise from ranking the books themselves. |
| 1:05.8 | And I've got some really interesting results for you coming out of this exercise. |
| 1:10.7 | But first, I have some housekeeping. |
| 1:13.0 | I'll start with a general announcement, a little public service announcement here that I made |
| 1:16.6 | on social media, but I may as well make sure that all of you are aware who may not go onto social |
| 1:22.9 | media. When I was covering adaptations that slipped through the cracks a few episodes ago, |
| 1:27.6 | I mentioned that there was a newly uploaded free version of Lord Edgeworth dies from the 1930s, |
| 1:34.7 | starring Austin Trevor as Poirot. That was newly available on YouTube. |
| 1:39.6 | And there is another old and hard to find Christie adaptation that has just surfaced on YouTube. |
| 1:46.0 | So it's just a click away. And that would be the 1952 US television adaptation of they came to |
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