The Mysterious Life of Agatha Christie

Detectives Don't Sleep

NOISER

True Crime, Fiction, History, Drama

4.6 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This episode originally appeared on Short History Of… read by John Hopkins. If you like what you hear, search ‘Short History Of’ in your podcast app and hit follow or weekly episodes. Detectives Don’t sleep will be back next week. Retaining the title of the “Queen of Crime” to this day, Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. Across 66 novels, 14 short-story collections, and 20 stage plays, she depicted the evil lurking in the hearts of ordinary people. But how did this homeschooled daughter of a privileged English family learn so much about poisons, psychopaths and murder? What in her personal life informed such a suspicious view of ordinary people? And how did she trigger a real-life mystery in 1926 that saw the whole country turn amateur detective? Written by Jo Furniss. With thanks to best-selling crime writer Sophie Hannah. For ad-free listening, exclusive content and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started with a 7-day free trial. Or, if you’re on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:07.2	Hey listeners, Mark here. In place of our regular programming. This week we have a special treat,
1:13.4	an episode on the famous detective mystery writer, Agatha Christie, read by John Hopkins,
1:19.6	who you may remember from Scotland Yard Confidential. This episode was originally featured on our
1:25.0	sister podcast, Short History of.
1:32.8	So if you like it and want to hear more, follow Short History of wherever you get your shows.
1:37.1	Detectives Don't Sleep will be back with a new episode next week.
1:38.1	See you then.
1:49.0	It is December 4th, 1926. In the grey light of dawn, a detective picks his way over a desolate hillside. This is Newlands Corner, a beauty spot in the south of England, just outside London.
1:57.1	The ground is water-locked and strewn with jagged branches. It's only four miles from the town of Guilford, but it feels like the wild and inhospitable landscape of a Gothic novel.
2:08.6	Accompanied by police constables, he trudges towards an abandoned car.
2:14.6	The vehicle, a Morris Cowley, has its bull-nosed bonnet buried in a thornbush,
2:21.1	its headlamps glaring into the gloom. Beyond the car lies the cliff edge of a chalk quarry,
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