Introduction
Show notes
It’s the introductory episode of Westmapod: Agatha Christie’s Secret Identity with co-hosts Gray and Mark (aka Christie Time, from The Swinging Christies podcast)!
The alter ego of best-selling novelist Agatha Christie, Westmacott wrote six fascinating novels - and in this bookclub-style limited series, we will be going book-by-book to answer to question: who is Mary Westmacott?
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Westmapod is a Christie Time project by Mark Aldridge and Gray Robert Brown. Artwork designed by Tom Double.
00:00:00 - Opening titles
00:00:58 - Introduction to Westmapod
00:02:45 - Who is Mary Westmacott?
00:08:41 - The six Mary Westmacott books
00:14:46 - What are we looking to discover?
00:19:25 - Series plan, next episode, how to get in touch
00:22:34 - Closing titles
00:23:31 - Coda
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