The Case of the Missing Novelist

Noble Blood

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. But her biggest mystery unfolded outside the pages of her books. Today Dana examines the 11 days in 1926 when the beloved author went missing, and the rollicking media circus inspired by her disappearance.

On the Very Special Episodes podcast, we tell one incredible story each week. Stranger-than-fiction tales about normal people in extraordinary situations. Stories that make you say, “this should be a movie!” Follow us down a different rabbit hole every Wednesday.

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Voice Actors are Brittany Joyner and Steve Bradford
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Research and Fact Checking by Joe Pompeo and Austin Thompson
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Executive Producer is Jason English

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0:00.0	History is filled with unexpected stories, and I'd like to tell you about them.
0:04.6	I'm Aaron Manky, and for the past six years, I've been sharing history's most curious tales on my podcast,
0:10.0	Cabinet of Curiositys, such as the surprising country that invented the croissant and the wrestling champ who won the White House.
0:16.6	And now these amazing stories, and many more have been compiled into my new book.
0:20.9	Curious to know more?
0:22.0	Pre-order Cabinet of Curieties, available November 12th, wherever books and audiobooks are sold.
0:27.1	Learn more over at grim and mild.com slash curiosities.
0:32.3	Hi, I'm Ed Zittron, host of the Better Offline podcast, and we're kicking off our second season, digging into TechS Elite, and now they've turned Silicon Valley into a playground for billionaires.
0:42.5	From the chaotic world of generative AI to the destruction of Google's search.
0:46.9	Better Offline is your unvarnished and, at times unhinged look at the underbelly of tech, brought to you by an industry veteran with nothing to lose.
0:55.1	Listen to better offline on the IHot Radio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever else you get your
0:59.7	podcasts from.
1:02.4	Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017,
1:08.9	was assassinated.
1:10.4	Crooks everywhere unerfs the plot to murder a one-woman WikiLeaks.
1:14.7	She exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state.
1:22.3	Listen to Crooks Everywhere on the IHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
1:34.3	On Thanksgiving Day 1999, five-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, was found off the coast of Florida.
1:43.2	And the question was, should the boy go back to his father in Cuba?
1:47.8	Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home and he wanted to take his son with him.
1:51.5	Or stay with his relatives in Miami.
1:54.0	Imagine that your mother died trying to get you to freedom.
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