Valerie Martin: The Ghost of the Mary Celeste

Bookworm

KCRW

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Valerie Martin on her fascination with the ship Mary Celeste, found floating with no crew off the coast of Spain in 1872. She says she does not believe in ghosts, but…

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:03.8	Boots!
0:06.0	Where would we be without books?
0:12.0	Where would we be without good?
0:15.0	No to bird.
0:16.0	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:20.0	But where would we be without books?
0:23.8	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.
0:29.7	Today my guest is Valerie Martin.
0:32.0	I haven't seen Valerie in around 20 years.
0:35.3	I'm so happy.
0:36.7	She's written around 11 novels. I like each new one more than the last, and I love the new one, which is called the ghost of the Marie Celeste. Now, this is a story, a legend, a historical event. Tell me the story of the Marie Celeste.
0:56.0	The Marie Celeste is actually the Mary Celeste.
0:58.9	Thank you.
0:59.6	But you're not alone in calling it the Marie Celeste.
1:02.2	And there's a reason for that, which is part of the plot of the story, because it was
1:06.4	called the Marie Celeste by Conan Doyle in the story that he wrote.
1:10.1	So the names got conflated.
1:11.6	This was as a young writer, the inventor of Sherlock Holmes, author Conan Doyle,
1:16.7	wrote a story based upon these events.
1:19.4	These events.
1:20.0	And these are the events.
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