Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAll About Opera: The Face of Helen & Swan Song by Agatha Christie
Episode 115
It's another special double episode, this one focusing on the world of opera and Christie's personal love of music. In our first story we attend Cove…
7 years ago
Getting Happy with Parker Pyne: Have You Got Everything You Want? by Agatha Christie
Episode 114
All aboard the... Orient Express?! That's right: heart specialist Parker Pyne is going abroad, and while we've already covered one of his travels in …
7 years ago
And Then There Were 34: The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie
Episode 113
It may surprise some listeners to learn how mixed we were on our third Miss Marple novel, given what fans we are (yes, even Catherine) of our dear sp…
7 years ago
The Name's Bond. James Bond. Just Not *That* James Bond: The Rajah's Emerald by Agatha Christie
Episode 112
No, really: the protagonist of this story is "James Bond," who appears more than a quarter century before Ian Fleming's slightly more famous characte…
7 years, 1 month ago
Manic Pixie Monster a.k.a. Never Go to the Second Location: The Golden Ball by Agatha Christie
Episode 111
We have been here before, and we will almost certainly be here again. It's time for another kookily "romantic" story in which two young things banter…
7 years, 1 month ago
A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Double Clue & The Capture of Cerberus by Agatha Christie
Episode 110
We've heard tell that two hearts are better than one, so we figured we'd take that approach to our exploration of a character within the Christievers…
7 years, 1 month ago
And Then There Were 35: Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
Episode 109
Well, the last time we posted such a prolix episode it was to gush over what became our highest ranked novel, And Then There Were None. We will leave…
7 years, 1 month ago
Communing with Mr. Quin: The Voice in the Dark by Agatha Christie
Episode 108
This Harley Quin story has, if not quite everything, then nearly so: a boating catastrophe in the distant past that is neither the Titanic nor the Lu…
7 years, 2 months ago
Getting Happy with Parker Pyne: The Case of the Rich Woman by Agatha Christie
Episode 107
Let's just hope for all our sakes we never get another opportunity to go off on a tangent about body-switch comedies. (One never knows in the Christi…
7 years, 2 months ago
On Scheherezade & Omar Khayyám: Mr Eastwood's Adventure by Agatha Christie
Episode 106
We are discussing another early Christie thriller, so we've got a dippy male protagonist combined with dubious gender politics, sigh. But it also tur…
7 years, 2 months ago