LOS ANGELES — At first glance, Kemper Donovan's backyard bungalow appears perfectly normal for this Santa Monica neighborhood, but a few clues suggest otherwise.
A map of the English county of Devon. A copy of "The Poisoner's Handbook." A professional-looking microphone perched on a wooden desk. And then there's the enormous portrait of Agatha Christie hanging next to the guest bed.
If you use your little gray cells — as Christie's fictional detective Hercule Poirot liked to say — you might deduce that this is where Donovan, 43, records the long-running podcast "All About Agatha." In it, he and co-host Catherine Brobeck set out to read and rank all of Christie's 66 mystery novels, and discuss them in exhaustive detail.
