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All About Agatha Christie
All About Agatha is a podcast all about, well, Agatha. Agatha Christie, of course: the Queen of Crime, a real-life Dame of the British Empire, and author of sixty-six mystery novels that spanned the Twentieth Century, defining a genre. For five years, Catherine Brobeck and Kemper Donovan revisited t...
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Interview with Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper, Author and Illustrator of The Creeping Hand Murder
Who doesn't love a puzzle? Maureen and Jay have gone *full bore* on the notion of a solvable Golden Age mystery. Call it a mashup between Agatha Chris...
*LIVE!* Episode - True Crime Queen: The Real-life Murders in Agatha Christie's Fiction (Recorded at the 2025 Agatha Christie Festival)
Rejoice: it is time for another live episode from the Agatha Christie Festival, in Christie's birthplace of Torquay! This time I braved the stage all...
Summer Rerun - Gone Girl: The Notorious Real-Life Disappearance of Agatha Christie
Please enjoy this time capsule from early 2017, all about the real-life disappearance of our favorite author.... See (some of) you in England! Details...
Interview with Marthe Jocelyn, Author of YA Mystery Series Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen
At long last, another episode about YA mystery! If you haven't yet heard of Marthe Jocelyn's Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen series, you are in for a trea...
Interview with Riley Sager, Author of With a Vengeance (and Many Other Mysteries)
Riley Sager has been producing bestselling mystery thrillers with Christie-like consistency for nine years now. His latest, With a Vengeance, is his m...
Click Clack Click Clack DING: The (Real) Secretaries of Agatha Christie (with Guest Co-Host Helen Frank)
I could not be more thrilled to welcome back A+++ listener, and now two-time guest co-host, Helen Frank, to discuss the flesh-and-blood secretaries of...
All About the Audiobooks of Agatha Christie (with Special Guest Gray Robert Brown)
How has it taken me this long to talk about audiobooks?! Huge thanks to Gray Robert Brown, for his willingness to share his considerable expertise on...
Interview with Steen Just, Wikipedia Administrator for Danish-Language Agatha Christie Articles
Steen Just is a Danish gentleman who is passionate about Agatha Christie--so much so that he has spent his retirement contributing hugely to the Danis...
Interview with Dr. Mark Aldridge, Project Research Lead for BBC Maestro's Agatha Christie Writing Course
There's a decent chance you've heard about the recent online course put out by BBC Maestro, in which a digitally manipulated representation of Agatha...
Click Clack Click Clack DING: The (Fictional) Secretaries of Agatha Christie (with Guest Co-Host Helen Frank)
When A+++ podcast listener Helen Frank contacted me about doing a themed episode on the secretaries of Agatha Christie, little did I know there would...
Interview with Mystery Author Jeffrey Round
It was a delight to speak to Jeffrey Round--both about his work, and of course, about Agatha Christie. He is every bit as much of a Christie fan as me...
An Afternoon at the Theater with Hercule Poirot (and Director Christopher Diehl)
What fun it was to put together this roving episode of All About Agatha! Thanks again to Christopher Diehl for inviting me to A Poirot Double Bill. I'...
A Christie for Easter: In the Cool of the Evening by Agatha Christie Mallowan (with Rev. Dr. Sarah Hinlicky Wilson)
We've done so many Christies for Christmas, it's about time we did one for Easter. Alas, mutations from the radioactive byproduct of a 1960s-era nucle...
Interview with Literary Map Designer (Yes, That's a Thing) Ben Olins
It isn't every day I get to interview a map designer on All About Agatha. Nor is it every day I get to work on a map with a map designer, which is som...
A *Very Special* Episode: Listener Mail!
Letters! We get letters! We get stacks and stacks of letters! It's a mailbag-only episode of All About Agatha, and you know what that means: Sia's hea...
Meow: The Cats of Agatha Christie
First, dogs. Now, cats. Who knows where this podcast will lead me next?
Come see me on tour! 4th-9th of March in the Northeastern U.S.! Visit my...
A Special Valentine's Day Episode: All About Love in Agatha Christie
Love and marriage are said to go together like a horse and carriage, but what about love and murder? Like a sheep and herder, maybe? I'm just spitball...
Interview with Lucy Foley, Author of The Midnight Feast (and Other Mysteries)
Chances are you know exactly who Lucy Foley is, and have read one of her bestselling mystery thrillers, all of which have been compared to Agatha Chri...
Special Announcement: I Am Okay, But Next Episode Delayed Due to L.A. Fires
Thank you to everyone for understanding. As I mentioned, here are a few organizations you can contribute to, if you are so inclined.
Los Angeles...
A Special Christmas Episode: Promotion in the Highest by Agatha Christie Mallowan (with Rev. Dr. Sarah Hinlicky Wilson). . . and Some Holiday Poems, Too!
It's always a joy to have the Reverend Doctor Sarah Hinlicky Wilson on the show to explain to us what the heck Agatha Christie Mallowan is getting at...
Beware Poppy and Mandragora: Within a Wall by Agatha Christie (with Guest Co-Host Michelle Kazmer)
It was a joy to welcome Dr. Michelle Kazmer back on the podcast to discuss an early and unusual Christie short story that contains echoes of so much o...
Interview with Maureen Johnson, Author of Death at Morning House
Take comfort, for Maureen Johnson is back on the podcast to talk about her newest (standalone) YA mystery novel, and to talk about the nature of YA my...
A Special HALLOWE'EN SPOOKTACULAR Episode: The Fourth Man by Agatha Christie
We've got strange goings-on in this early, supernatural Christie short story. What happened to poor Felicie Bault? Could it be a multiple personality...
*Crossover Episode* with The Swinging Christies (!!): Ranking the 1960s Novels of Agatha Christie
Did you know that Superman's appearance on I Love Lucy is considered by some to be the first crossover episode of television? In that case, I was bles...
Interview with Marci Kay Monson, Author of the New Children's Book, Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Marci Kay Monson has created something very interesting in this children's picture-book version of The Mysterious Affair at Styles. I can't think of a...
*LIVE!* Episode: Agatha Christie's Greatest Screen Adaptation? (Recorded at the 2024 Agatha Christie Festival)
It's time for another live episode from the Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay, with a to-die-for panel of Agathologists! And guess what? The sound q...
Summer Rerun: All About the Adaptations of And Then There Were None (with guest Mark Aldridge)
I hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane, especially since it will help prepare you for my upcoming live episode at the Agatha Christie Festival, c...
Special Announcement: I'm Coming to Scotland!
I'm thrilled to be participating in the Bloody Scotland festival this September! Click here for more information about my panel on Saturday, 14 Sept...
Interview with Kate Gingold, Author of Agatha Annotated
It was such a pleasure to speak with Kate Gingold about her glossary of annotations of Christie novels and short stories from the 1920s.
You can...
Woof: The Dogs of Agatha Christie
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...
Interview with David Morris of Collecting Christie
It was a dream to be able to sit down with David Morris, and pore over all the priceless goodies he brought with him having to do with Agatha Christie...
Overbearing, Rich, and Idiomatic: The Americans of Agatha Christie
It's time to discuss those pesky Americans who appear in the Christie canon, and answer such burning questions as: Are all Americans millionaires? (Al...
Collecting the Collectors: The Gays of Agatha Christie (Special *PRIDE* Edition... with Bonus Jamie Bernthal!)
It's raining long-haired, antique-loving, architecturally-inclined men! And a few women, too! June is Pride month for the LGBTQIA+ community here in t...
Interview with Journalist Karen Robinson on the Discovery of a Rare, Early Agatha Christie Artifact
It isn't every day a new discovery is made regarding a physical record of Agatha Christie's writing, especially one from her earliest days as a writer...
Ten Little Poirots & Marples: Ranking Agatha Christie's Detectives on the Screen
It's another episode focused on the adaptations of Agatha Christie: specifically, those talented actors who have brought life to Monsieur Poirot and M...
*LIVE!* Episode: Interview with Kemper Donovan, Author of The Busy Body (and Busman's Holidayer)
Saturday, April 27th is Independent Bookstore Day here in the United States, and what better way to celebrate than with this live interview from my bo...
Interview with Andrew Winans, Director of The Hollow by Agatha Christie
Andrew Winans is the director of a new off-Broadway production of Christie's theatrical adaptation of her superb novel, The Hollow. I loved getting to...
*Special Announcement* re Next Episode
Next week's episode will be a discussion with Andrew Winans, the director of an upcoming Off-Broadway production of The Hollow, a play written by Agat...
Klaxon Bell Bonanza: The Actress by Agatha Christie
If you're a longtime listener of this podcast, you'll know never to trust an actor in a Christie story. So what happens when not one but two actors fe...
Ranking Some (But Not All!) of the Various Screen Adaptations of Agatha Christie (with Teresa Peschel)
Quick: what is the best Joan Hickson adaptation of a Miss Marple novel? Or how about your least favorite Suchet episode? If you like pondering such qu...