Caroline: Since you're listening to this podcast, I feel fairly confident in saying that you think Agatha Christie wrote some good books. There's a high probability that you decided to listen to me talking about detective fiction because you have, at some point, enjoyed a novel
28 Jul 2021Caroline: Do you feel an uncomfortable heat at the pit of your stomach? Is there a nasty thumping at the top of your head? If there is, then you might have come down with a case of detective fever. According to Wilkie Collins's 1868 novel The Moonstone, these
14 Jul 2021Caroline: When you close your eyes and imagine the setting of an Agatha Christie story, what do you see? A grand country house, perhaps, or an idyllic English village complete with its own spinster sleuth. For all that the Queen of Crime is lauded for her plots, she deserves praise
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