Celebrating Miss Marple and Sleeping Murder

Why has Agatha Christie’s spinster sleuth endured?

This episode was recorded live at the 2026 International Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay, Devon. Alongside Caroline on the panel was Professor Michelle Kazmer from Florida State University and the historian Rachel Trethewey, with the journalist Sarah Ransome in the chair.

Books mentioned in this episode:
— Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
— A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie
— The Mirror Crack'd by Agatha Christie
— A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie
— The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie
— The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
— An Autobiography by Agatha Christie
— The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
— Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley
— They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie
— Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie
— 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
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