Hello listeners, Tizai, Kemper Donovan, just a quick announcement to let you know that

I am offering a treat for your consumption on this Valentine's Day and for a few days

thereafter in the form of a free Patreon episode, which is itself Valentine's Day themed.

So in the most recent Patreon episode for the podcast, I covered an Agatha Christie

short story that I have not and will not be covering on the regular podcast, and that

is Magnolia Blossom, which is very much about love as so much Agatha Christie is.

There is a love triangle at the center of that story.

Hmm, never seen that in a Christie before.

There's lots of mine actually as to how this story relates to Christie's own life,

and this episode gave me a fantastic excuse to quote Christie's autobiography at Great

Length, which is something that Christie's publishers also did in this book collection

that came out in the last couple of weeks, and it's called a deadly affair, unexpected

love stories from the Queen of Mysteries.

So Magnolia Blossom is one of the stories within that collection.

We have covered almost all of the other stories, and I figured that some regular listeners

might enjoy listening to me natter on about the collection and Magnolia Blossom and Agatha

Christie's real love life and other affairs of the heart in her life.

So you can head on over to Patreon, I've actually included a link in the episode notes

for this little announcement, or you can just type www.patreon.com slash all about Agatha

into your web browser, that's P-A-T-R-E-O-N, and I hope that you enjoy.

The next time you hear from me, it will be about the Miss Marple novel Nemesis, and I

will be ranking that novel along with my friend and Christie colleague, Jamie Burntall Hooker.

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