How much did Agatha Christie really know about dead bodies?

Thanks to my guest for this episode, Carla Valentine. She is a trained mortuary technician and the technical curator at Barts Pathology Museum in London. She's also the author of Murder Isn't Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie.

There are no major plot spoilers in this episode, although there is some discussion of the death in Hercule Poirot's Christmas.

Books referenced:

— The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie

— The Tuesday Night Club aka The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie

— Mrs McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie

— Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie

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