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. I'm Camper Donovan. I'm Catherine Brobock.

And we are back here with another special announcement. Oh my gosh.

So many special announcements, Kemper. I promise we won't be making a habit of this.

Well, this is a very exciting special announcement because as many of you are probably aware,

we have an extremely important anniversary coming up this week.

That would be the anniversary of the birth of one Agatha Christie, who was born on September 15th and even more importantly this year is an anniversary year since our beloved

author's first novel the The Mysterious Affairs styles, was published 100 years ago in

1920.

So all other things functioning as they should, this would be an extremely active year for all sorts of

celebrations of Christie and her works happening in the real world. However,

Yeah, however, Kemper, not such maybe a normal year, huh?

Not such a normal year. But that is not going to stop us, is it no and also by the way just wanted to remind you in case you

had not picked out your gift for me yet that

September 15th also happens to be our four-year anniversary. This is true.

For long years ago.

Yeah, you say that like, you know, you're having to like do the laundry in the dishes so the old

ball and chain the old ball and chain no but we are participating in an online version of the International Ag of the Christie Festival,

which we had been planning to do an event for in person in the before times.

Yeah, we would have been in England at this point in attendance at the IRL festival ini, which would have been lovely.

Right, I think I would have been on a plane right now, in fact,

had certain things not happened.

So for all the listeners who would like to visit the lovely British Riviera,

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