S30E17: The Disappearance of Agatha Christie, ft. Archie Christie

Trashy Divorces

Hemlock Creatives

Comedy, History

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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This week, Alicia is celebrating the 135th birthday of the mother of the modern mystery genre: Agatha Christie. And while Agatha Christie's novels held the public's attention, her disappearance in December 1926 galvanized the public and brought various personal scandals - namely, her husband Archie's infidelity - to light, in a way that nothing else could have. But to this day, we have no idea what exactly that 11-day period in the long life of Agatha Christie actually was. Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to trashy divorces, everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships.
0:06.7	My name is Stacey and Alicia, you have a birthday mystery tour for us this week.
0:12.2	A little bit of a mystery, a little bit of a twist.
0:14.6	It is Alicia here.
0:15.9	Thank you one and all for joining us today for this Out and Out tale of marital misadventure and a mystery put
0:26.9	in the middle of it. Gosh, such a good story. This week with all the mysteries happening in the
0:32.7	world with return to autumn programming, we've got only murders in the building back.
0:38.1	We do.
0:38.6	Love that.
0:39.3	For season five, we have the Thursday murder club that was a delightful little romp
0:45.4	with a cozy mystery.
0:47.7	And great cast, really fun.
0:49.5	We are not sponsored by any of this.
0:51.8	We just like it.
0:52.9	We just like cozy mysteries.
0:55.2	I thought this week, why not talk about the mother of true crime cozy mysteries, Agatha Christie.
1:03.7	She's the lady who laid the blueprint.
1:07.3	Why this week?
1:08.7	Happy birthday, Agatha Christie.
1:15.3	She was born September 15th, total Virgo gal.
1:32.8	Okay. This one only works this week. Sure, sure. I mean, or Agatha's birthday. Yeah. And it's not even an encore. I'm going to do a whole retelling of this story. Stacey all the way back. Right. We did Agatha Christie in season two, episode three. It's one of my very favorite stories from trashy divorces. I know it is. However, these six years later, with all the
1:37.8	mysteries that surround us, and in a little bit of homage to Agatha Christie, I thought it was worth a dust off the bookshelf and a retelling.
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