She is beloved worldwide for her crime writing. But what did she like to read?

Resources and articles mentioned in this episode:— Jamie Bernthal on Arthur Conan Doyle— Moira Redmond on Elizabeth Daly— Martin Edwards on My Brother's Killer— Gray Robert Brown on Muriel Spark

Books mentioned in this episode:— Agatha Christie An Autobiography by Agatha Christie— The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle— The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie— The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle— The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie— Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers— Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers— The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers— Mr Fortune, Please by H.C. Bailey— Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie— Unexpected Night by Elizabeth Daly— The Missing Moneylender by W. Stanley Sykes— The Clocks by Elizabeth Daly— The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux— My Brother's Killer by D.M. Devine— The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carré— The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie— Endless Night by Agatha Christie— Stamboul Train by Graham Greene— The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark— The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark— A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie— The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie— The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen— Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen— The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen

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