What made Agatha Christie the world's second-best selling author, and what draws us to creepiness in the first place? In today's review of By the Pricking of My Thumbs, your hosts discuss these curiosities while considering mystery's worth as a genre, how to write suspense convincingly, and the horrors of the villain in this book. Holly appreciates the imagination it takes to hop off the murder train while Rebecca rejoices over the charm and compatibility of Tommy and Tuppence. 

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Music Credit: "March of the Pods" by Howling Mad H