Woof: The Dogs of Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Whether it's teeny-tiny dogs like the Pekingese, more medium-sized dogs like the VAST array of terriers who appear in this episode, or large dogs like the scary greyhound who makes quite a memorable appearance, there is something for everyone in my discussion of the canine species in Agatha Christie's works. Special thanks to Kate Jackson and Michelle Kazmer, whose expertise I leaned on in preparing this episode.

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Please watch the PBS SoCal YouTube series Won't You Be My Gamer?, in which I play a videogame adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express with two experts! Great fun.

You can read Kate Jackson's excellent lecture on animals in classic mystery fiction here.

Here is a link to that old, dog-and-cat-centric episode of the Crown Court series that I mentioned, Evil Liver, written by Ngaio Marsh and starring Joan Hickson (among others).

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime
0:13.4	Dame Agatha Christie. I am Kemper Donovan
0:17.1	and yes listeners I have a big old summer cold
0:20.2	so I apologize for the hoarseness the weirdness of my voice but we are just gonna power on through
0:27.1	because we have a lot to discuss today in my episode all about the dogs of Agatha Christie.
0:35.0	Let's go through some preliminary matters.
0:38.0	I mentioned this in my last episode,
0:40.0	but I am currently appearing in a YouTube series created by PBS SoCal, my local PBS station, called
0:48.0	Won't You Be My Gamer? And in this multi- episode arc, I am the Ag of the Christie expert who sits down with two
0:56.2	gamers as they play through a video game adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express. I've already heard from a number of you that you
1:05.1	enjoyed the first two episodes. There are two more episodes yet to be released.
1:10.7	I am including a link to this show down in the notes and I encourage you all to check it out. I think it's a lot of fun. I know I had fun recording it.
1:18.6	Next let's talk some spoilers. This is going to be a very spoiler heavy episode as all of my
1:25.9	themed ranking episodes are turning out to be and that's because I get to have a lot of fun
1:30.7	talking in depth about a lot of different Ag of the Christie titles. So the following
1:35.2	stories will be spoiled to some degree over the course of this episode. The adventure of Johnny Waverly, Appointment with Death, The Capture of Cerberus, Death on the Nile,
1:48.6	Dumb Witness, Elephants Can Remember, Five Little pigs. Witness. The incident of the dog's ball Lord Edgware dies the mirror cracked from side to side the
2:08.0	moving finger Mrs McGinty's dead murder is easy easy. The Murder on the Links, the Numian Lion, next to a dog,
2:18.8	Pastern of Fate, and finally the secret adversary.
2:24.0	If you are worried about having any of those titles spoiled,
2:27.3	you have been warned.
2:29.1	All right, before I get to my episode proper,
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