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Two sisters - one lifelong fan, one first time reader, analyzing the works of Agatha Christie. Started as our quarantine project to connect across the country.  How does Agatha hold up looking through a 2021-2022 lens? Join us as we go through her books. You can read along or just listen and compare to your memory of the books or movies or shows. Intended for a grownup audience with adult language...

Poirot Pod is back! We welcome you back with discussion including a discussion of Guy Fawkes, "air" "quotes," what it means to be hairy at one's heel, and golfing as self-care. We also recommend (unsponsored. so far...) bookaudio.online for our listener-listener-readers.

A great book (which Amanda hated) featuring both Poirot and Colonel Race, and Agatha Christie taking (apparently obvious) shots at romance author Elinor Glyn. Portia shouts "boobs!" while Amanda faces her feeling for butch Maggie Smith in the 1978 film adaptation. Many questions come up including: if you are Bernie Madoffing--does that make you boulder-pushy?

This episode was recorded half in-person, and the book HAS A DOG which seems to be the main reason Amanda loves it, while Portia is forced to identify with the victim before the murder, so that loses the book points on the Portia Scale. Agatha Christie falls on the right side of colorism (for a change!) but uses marginalization of women to manipulate us (it worked). Bobby gets a sandwich while wat...

This book is murder in a bottle, featuring a Scooby-Doo gang of all our fav detectives solving the murder of a mephistophelian poseur during a bridge game. It registered only a 6 on The Portia Scale, but Amanda thinks it's peak Poirot and thinks would be a great first book to introduce a new reader to Agatha Christie. The episode is super rambling with "Bobby got a sandwich" tangents including: me...

Hercule & Arthur go to WhiteCastle to catch a (faux) serial killer. Hastings and Poirot both shine in this ingenious plot which is not, in fact, poo poo pants. Also Portia Scale catch up and a Rupert Grint tangent.

The Mystery of the Missing Episode! We recorded this back in the summer, but somehow missed it in publishing. The book is bringing big Chimneys-sequel energy with hilarious writing, questionable plot elements, and a realistic love story.

Special In-Person episode #thankyouvaccines !!! This book is another murder in a bottle (you gotta rub me the right way) for which Oedipus is *not* a good analogy. Could you reunite with an ex without knowing it? Poirot is a mentor and not an a**hole again (yay), but the villain has been catch-me-if-you-can-ing for a *real* long con and we don't buy the twist/solution. Then, we, like, introduce, l...

This book is a Poirot-y Poirot mystery that casts him as a more likable mentor, but leaves Portia and Amanda at odds on who conspired in the murder. Our discussion features searching for the terms "Québécois"  and "bottle episode," as well as a discussion of penis bees. This episode's "Bobby got a sandwich" is "Lady Horbury does some more coke."

This episode's conversation got us to come up with the... *Parker Pyne Fan Fiction Contest! Email your modern Parker Pyne story to poirotpodcast@gmail.com! What are the modern reasons for discontentment, and how would you fix them in a PP way?* This second half of the book is Parker Pyne ROAD RULES, where Ms. Christie seems to have lost interest in the agency, so PP goes on the road and does Poiro...

Parker Pyne pod! Covering the 1st half of Parker Pyne Investigates. Topics include: different racism edits in different versions, including Asian fetishism, is sneezing the covidtimes farting? getting one's groove back: can you get healthy on your own, or do you have to engage in life to move forward? We discuss PP's approach to manipulation instead of therapy to address "unhappiness," consent, ca...

The redemption of Hercule! Agatha and Amanda are both back on Team Poirot in this masterful, dark-*ss book which is a reverse Rodger Aykroyd, and future-reverse And Then There Were None featuring Italian stereotypes. The "Bobby got a sandwich" nonsense tangents in this episode features spoilers for Knives Out, discussion of antepenultimate syllables and other (mis)pronouncing, the sexiness of vari...

In this episode, we discuss this delightful lesser known mystery, which brings up privilege, class, and birth order (spoiler: younger siblings are murdering psychopaths). Portia and Amanda get distracted by their discomfort with domestic service and then by Michelle Obama's flawlessness, while the protagonists get distracted by sexy murderers. We get on track to discover that Evans made the sandwi...

We are back with Hercule Poirot in this 1933 book! In terms of plot, it is brilliant while Poirot isn't. In terms of writing, Portia's 1980's version had racism and anti-semitism which were edited out of the 2012 version Amanda listened to. Follow along as we get into Vulcan brain stabs, Fibber Mcgee and Molly, Kimmy Schmidt, and American dialects.

Stressed about democracy? Ignore reality and listen to the rambling conclusion to our discussion on the Mr. Quin stories, we discuss remembering choreography years later, the idea of death as a character and even lover, outsiders to love being insightful observers, the idea of one true love, and the gender spectrum. Amanda says "whoa" like Joey from Blossom a lot as we manage to compare the ideas...

This second episode discussing the Mysterious Mr. Quin was recorded in November of 2020 (we were so young and innocent then)... The stories of The Man from the Sea through The Dead Harlequin follow Mr. Satterthwaite as he steps into his role and the discussion gets into f*ckboys, finding love in your 40s, sister violence, the dangers of being too beautiful, Rihanna, violence of men against women,...

We are excited to have a guest on this episode, our mother! We discuss this short story collection as well as the mechanisms of different poisons, "the quiet assurance" of white privilege, problematic Swedes, and Pamela comes in with a counterpoint to our cousin love stance?

Agatha Christie forays into the supernatural in this fascinating collection of stories (Amanda's Favorite!) which has a singularly positive portrayal of feminine traits in a man and brings up themes of the magic of non-binary gender! Listen to Amanda struggle to pronounce Satterthwaite as we wonder about the relationship of Mr. Quin and Mr. S to Mr. Snuffleupagus, Joe Black, the Sixth Sense, and E...

Recording episode 13 during 2020 retrogrades and before the US election was called leads to a weird timing delay in the recording about halfway through the episode (apologies for that to our decades of listeners)... in which Portia TALKS ABOUT SEXUALITY and brazenly ignores the 'u' in aunt. Agatha Christie has updated her stance on consanguinity in this great mystery that brings up frienemies and...

We start this episode by catching up on The Portia Scale, then: Poirot gets conned, Hastings glows up, questions about Agatha's criminal justice framework, toddler zoomies, and plans for American(s) In England.

After a couple month recording hiatus, Poirot Pod is back! We discuss how the obvious suspects did it in a very non-obvious way, Agatha Christie's evolving stance on killing murderers, and spinstererotisism (or lack thereof).

More Tommy and Tuppence! Is the Blitz the McDowell's of London? Also randomly featuring spoilers for "The Prestige".