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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 nuclear power plant did not move me or my guest co-host the way Christie seems to have intended. But perhaps your mileage varies. The following titles are spoiled to varying degrees in this episode: The Man from the Sea, The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, The Murder at the Vicarage, Nemesis, Ordeal by Innocence, Passenger to Frankfurt, They Do It with Mirrors. Come visit me in the South! (Of the United States, that is.) Check out my upcoming tour dates here on my author website [https://kemperdonovan.com/news-events/]. Please check out Sarah's website [https://www.sarahhinlickywilson.com], podcast [https://www.sarahhinlickywilson.com/queenofthesciences], and substack [https://sarahhinlickywilsonstories.substack.com]. Much joy awaits you! You can still buy tickets to my upcoming appearance at the Agatha Christie Festival [http://www.iacf-uk.org/festival-2025/literary/true-crime-queen-the-real-life-murders-in-agatha-christies-fiction] in Torquay, England in September. Loose Lips, the second book in my Ghostwriter Mysteries series, is currently available for purchase [https://www.kensingtonbooks.com/9781496744548/loose-lips/]. You can also buy The Busy Body, the first book in my Ghostwriter Mysteries series, in paperback at your bookseller of choice (make it an indie if you possibly can) in the United States [https://www.kensingtonbooks.com/9781496744562/the-busy-body/], the United Kingdom [https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/kemper-donovan/the-busy-body/9781408720646/], and Australia and New Zealand [https://www.hachette.com.au/kemper-donovan/the-busy-body-the-instantly-gripping-whodunnit]. To visit and subscribe to the podcast's Patreon page, click here [https://www.patreon.com/allaboutagatha]. Visit the podcast on Twitter [https://x.com/allaboutthedame] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/allaboutagatha/]. Visit me personally on Facebook at Kemper Donovan Author [https://www.facebook.com/kemperdonovanauthor/], or at my author website [https://kemperdonovan.com/].

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 something I've been doing on the side in tribute to my late co-host, Catherine Brobeck, whom Ben and I talk about at some length in our conversation. We also talk some Christie, because of course we do; I know Catherine wouldn't have had it any other way. Visit my website [https://kemperdonovan.com/news-events/] for details on my upcoming U.S. tour in the South. Click here [http://www.iacf-uk.org/festival-2025/literary/true-crime-queen-the-real-life-murders-in-agatha-christies-fiction] for tickets to my upcoming panel at the Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay, in September. And click here [http://www.iacf-uk.org/festival-2025/literary] for information about all the fabulous offerings at the Festival this year. Loose Lips, the second book in my Ghostwriter Mysteries series, is currently available for purchase [https://www.kensingtonbooks.com/9781496744548/loose-lips/]. Time for some map links! Here is Catherine Brobeck's map of Joan Didion's Los Angeles [https://www.herblester.com/products/joan-didions-los-angeles?_pos=1&_sid=29e15f285&_ss=r], Caroline Crampton's map of Agatha Christie's England [https://www.herblester.com/products/agatha-christies-england?_pos=1&_sid=fe163062c&_ss=r], and Martin Edwards's Golden Age of Mystery map of England [https://www.herblester.com/products/this-deadly-isle?_pos=2&_sid=fe163062c&_ss=r]. And here is a link [https://www.herblester.com] to the general Herb Lester catalogue of gloriously weird maps. You can also buy The Busy Body, the first book in my Ghostwriter Mysteries series, in paperback at your bookseller of choice (make it an indie if you possibly can) in the United States [https://www.kensingtonbooks.com/9781496744562/the-busy-body/], the United Kingdom [https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/kemper-donovan/the-busy-body/9781408720646/], and Australia and New Zealand [https://www.hachette.com.au/kemper-donovan/the-busy-body-the-instantly-gripping-whodunnit]. To visit and subscribe to the podcast's Patreon page, click here [https://www.patreon.com/allaboutagatha]. Visit the podcast on Twitter [https://x.com/allaboutthedame] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/allaboutagatha/]. Visit me personally on Facebook at Kemper Donovan Author [https://www.facebook.com/kemperdonovanauthor/], or at my author website [https://kemperdonovan.com/].

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 heartbreaking "Breathe Me" song underlying my chatter at various points in the episode! No, I couldn't have predicted this either, but the Sia is a testament to how deeply I cherish all these messages, and how important they are to the podcast. Thank you, one and all, for your contributions. And please: keep them coming! Here is a link to the YouTuber, Summation Gathering, who I mention in the episode, analyzing whether Miss Marple could solve Monsieur Poirot's cases [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhq2zNu1JLA]. And here he is dream-casting various literary detectives [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utmA9mCqX-U]. You can check out my upcoming tour dates here on my author website [https://kemperdonovan.com/news-events/]. You can now buy Loose Lips, the second book in my Ghostwriter Mysteries series, here in the United States [https://www.kensingtonbooks.com/9781496744548/loose-lips/]! And you can now buy The Busy Body, the first book in my Ghostwriter Mysteries series, in paperback at your bookseller of choice (make it an indie if you possibly can) in the United States [https://www.kensingtonbooks.com/9781496744562/the-busy-body/], the United Kingdom [https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/kemper-donovan/the-busy-body/9781408720646/], and Australia and New Zealand [https://www.hachette.com.au/kemper-donovan/the-busy-body-the-instantly-gripping-whodunnit]. To visit and subscribe to the podcast's Patreon page, click here [https://www.patreon.com/allaboutagatha]. Visit the podcast on Twitter [https://x.com/allaboutthedame] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/allaboutagatha/]. Visit me personally on Facebook at Kemper Donovan Author [https://www.facebook.com/kemperdonovanauthor/], or at my author website [https://kemperdonovan.com/].

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 website [https://kemperdonovan.com/news-events/] for more details. You can now buy Loose Lips, the second book in my Ghostwriter Mysteries series, here in the United States [https://www.kensingtonbooks.com/9781496744548/loose-lips/]. Check out Kate Jackson's excellent article about cats and mysteries [https://crossexaminingcrime.wordpress.com/2017/08/16/cats-and-crime-an-eclectic-exploration-of-the-darker-side-to-cats-in-early-mystery-fiction/]. And here is the article I referenced [https://potpourri2015.wordpress.com/2020/08/08/tracing-cats-in-christie-agathachristie-cats-internationalcatday/] on the blog Literary Potpourri, which I found to be helpful. You can also buy The Busy Body, the first book in my Ghostwriter Mysteries series, in paperback at your bookseller of choice (make it an indie if you possibly can) in the United States [https://www.kensingtonbooks.com/9781496744562/the-busy-body/], the United Kingdom [https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/kemper-donovan/the-busy-body/9781408720646/], and Australia and New Zealand [https://www.hachette.com.au/kemper-donovan/the-busy-body-the-instantly-gripping-whodunnit]. To visit and subscribe to the podcast's Patreon page, click here [https://www.patreon.com/allaboutagatha]. Visit the podcast on Twitter [https://x.com/allaboutthedame] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/allaboutagatha/]. Visit me personally on Facebook at Kemper Donovan Author [https://www.facebook.com/kemperdonovanauthor/], or at my author website [https://kemperdonovan.com/].

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 spitballing here, forgive me; I'm a little delirious after exploring so many iterations of love in so many different Christie works. I hope you enjoy the episode. It was a labor of--well, you know. BLANKET SPOILER WARNING: spoilers abound in this episode (I cover a lot of ground), so if you are worried about having any Christie novel or short story spoiled for you, please proceed with caution! Check out my new article on AgathaChristie.com [https://bit.ly/ACTravelNovel], all about Christie's transportation and travel mysteries. And speaking of transportation and travel mysteries, consider purchasing my new mystery novel, Loose Lips, set entirely on a cruise ship [https://www.kensingtonbooks.com/9781496744548/loose-lips/]! (The second book in the Ghostwriter Mysteries series.) You can listen to two interviews I did on two great podcasts: Mechanicsburg Mystery Presents [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mechanicsburg-mystery-presents/id1597620713] and Books on the Go [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-278-loose-lips-with-kemper-donovan/id1391038223?i=1000685659730]. And you can check out my author website [https://kemperdonovan.com/news-events/] for more details about my upcoming tour in a few weeks' time, in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, from Tuesday March 4th through Sunday March 9th. Also you can now buy The Busy Body, the first book in my Ghostwriter Mysteries series, in paperback at your bookseller of choice (make it an indie if you possibly can) in the United States [https://www.kensingtonbooks.com/9781496744562/the-busy-body/], the United Kingdom [https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/kemper-donovan/the-busy-body/9781408720646/], and Australia and New Zealand [https://www.hachette.com.au/kemper-donovan/the-busy-body-the-instantly-gripping-whodunnit]. To visit and subscribe to the podcast's Patreon page, click here [https://www.patreon.com/allaboutagatha]. Visit the podcast on Twitter [https://x.com/allaboutthedame] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/allaboutagatha/]. Visit me personally on Facebook at Kemper Donovan Author [https://www.facebook.com/kemperdonovanauthor/] or at my author website [https://kemperdonovan.com/].