[Irene Adler]

I meant TOTAL.

[Miss Marple]

I agree. He sounds more like a low-level bureaucrat than a writer. Odd, isn't it? He doesn't have the command of language we hear when most writers are interviewed. I wonder if he has a team of writers who work for him.

[COUNTrecount]

His accent and cadence are very peculiar.He was born in Illinois but doesn't sound like anyone I know from there. His speech is quasi-Southern.