Why are crime writers so bowled over by the game?

Thank you to my guests, Dr. Andrew Green and cricket statistician Andy Zaltzman. You can find more cricket-related content and news from Andy by listening to Test Match Special on BBC Radio 5, or via his podcast, The Bugle Ashes Urncast.

Be aware: there are spoilers in this episode for the plot of Murder Must Advertise and non-spoiler details given about the other books listed below.

Mentioned in this episode:

— "The Adventure of the Priory School" by Arthur Conan Doyle, featured in The Return of Sherlock Holmes

— "The Adventure of the Three Students" Arthur Conan Doyle, featured in The Return of Sherlock Holmes

— Sherlock Holmes and the Birth of the Ashes by Arunabha Sengupta

— Sherlock Holmes at the 1902 Test by Stanley Shaw

— Busman’s Honeymoon by Dorothy L Sayers

— Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L Sayers

— The Clues of the Caribbees by TS Stribling

— Blotto, Twinks and the Rodents of the Riviera by Simon Brett

— Murder at School by James Hilton

— "The Guilty Vicarage" by WH Auden

— Alibi Innings by Barbara Worsley-Gough

— Murder Isn't Cricket by E and MA Radford

— The Amazing Test Match Crime by Adrian Arlington

— The Test Match Murder by Alfred Tack

— Death Before Wicket by Nancy Spain

— Death Before Wicket by Kerry Greenwood

— W.G. Grace’s Last Case by Willie Rushton

— Test Kill by Ted Baxter

Related Shedunnit episodes:

— Murder on Holiday

— Death Under Par

— The Advertising Adventures of Dorothy L. Sayers

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