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Podcast: Detectives Don't Sleep
Episode: The Mysterious Life of Agatha Christie
Description: This episode originally appeared on Short History Of⌠read by John Hopkins. If you like what you hear, search âShort History Ofâ in your podcast app and hit follow or weekly episodes. Detectives Donât sleep will be back next week. Retaining the title of the âQueen of Crimeâ to this day, Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. Across 66 novels, 14 short-story collections, and 20 stage plays, she depicted the evil lurking in the hearts of ordinary people. But how did this homeschooled daughter of a privileged English family learn so much about poisons, psyc...