In 1936, among the residents of the modest houses of Riverside Villas is 14 year old Peter Furneaux, obsessed by model aircraft, jazz and the mysterious world of sex.  Amis builds a murder mystery around an evocation of very particular time, place and social context, taking the opportunity to parody the tropes of the crime novel while drawing heavily on autobiography and taking consequences seriously.

Content note: the podcast discusses child sexual abuse and includes ethnic slurs

Things mentioned:

George Orwell The Decline of the English murder (1946)  
R C Sherriff The Fortnight in September (1931)

There is a radio dramatisation of the story https://youtu.be/FS2jO7vCZeE?si=ADA3UGJmwKy8YmMM