Agatha Christie Writes Alone (Queens of Crime at War 1)

Agatha Christie had a very productive WW2.

This is the start of Queens of Crime at War, a six part series looking at what the best writers from the golden age of detective fiction did once that period came to an end with the start of the Second World War.

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Thanks to my guests:
— J.C. Bernthal is an Agatha Christie scholar and the author of Queering Agatha Christie. His website is jcbernthal.com and he is on Twitter as @jcbernthal
— Martin Edwards is a crime writer and the author of, among many other books, The Golden Age of Murder. Find out more about all his work at martinedwardsbooks.com or via his Twitter as @medwardsbooks

There are no spoilers in this episode.

Books referenced:
— The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards
— Agatha Christie Goes To War edited by Rebecca Mills and J.C. Bernthal
— And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
— Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
— Murder Must Appetise by Harry Keating
— The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
— The ABC Murders  by Agatha Christie
— Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
— One, Two Buckle, My Shoe by Agatha Christie
— An Autobiography by Agatha Christie
— Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie
— Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
— N or M?  by Agatha Christie
— The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
— The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
— Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie
— Bletchley Park: The Codebreakers of Station X by Michael Smith
— The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie
— Curtain by Agatha Christie
— Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
— The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie
— Taken at the Flood by Agatha Christie
— A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
— The Hollow  by Agatha Christie
— Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie

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