(Old feed) Shedunnit Book Club — Seasoned Detectives

Welcome to your audiobook for February 2024. This month, the book club has voted to read The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson for Lesser Known Authors month. To complement this book club choice, here is a story from an author that is very well-known amongst our audiobook listeners: "The Golden Slipper." It is the titular story of Green's collection, The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange. The collection was originally published in 1915.

In this story, numerous thefts are leaving everyone puzzled, particularly because these items are eventually returned. Young “girl detective” Violet Strange has been asked to clear the name of a young woman and find the true thief.

More of Violet Strange's adventures: — "A Discovery" — "The Second Bullet" 

After listening, if you'd like to discuss these stories with other members or make suggestions for me to record in the future, head over to the audiobook club area of the forum to do that.

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One visit to Agatha Christie changed everything.

Thank you to my guest, Jules Burt, for sharing his book-collecting experiences and knowledge with us. You can learn more about his collection on his YouTube channel, Jules Burt Collections and Unboxings.

My new book, A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria, is published in April. To find out more and register for the exclusive pre-order bonus material, visit my website carolinecrampton.com.

Mentioned in this episode: — A Body Made of Glass by Caroline Crampton — The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie — Ulysses by James Joyce — Ariel by André Maurois — Death on the Borough Council by Josephine Bell — Speedy Death by Gladys Mitchell — Taken on Trust by Terry Waite — Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle — The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L Sayers — Allen Lane: King Penguin by J.E. Morpurgo — Penguin Special: Life and Times of Allen Lane by Jeremy Lewis — Mushroom Jungle: A History of Postwar Paperback Publishing by Stephen Holland — The Penguin Story by W.E. Williams — ‘A Paperback Guide to Progress: Penguin Books 1935– c .1951’ by Nicholas Joicey in Twentieth Century British History, 1993

Shedunnit Episodes Mentioned: — The Nobodies (Ad-Free)

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In this bonus episode, I return to some book recommendation requests that I was unable to feature in The Murder Mystery Hotline (Ad Free) back in May 2023. I hope you can add a few of these titles to your ever growing want-to-read list.

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Mentioned in the episode: — Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie (1935) — The G-String Murders by Gypsy Rose Lee (1941) — The Fashion in Shrouds by Margery Allingham (1938) — The Vanishing Corpse by Anthony Gilbert (1941) — The Bells at Old Bailey by Dorothy Bowers (1947) — Too Many Bones by Ruth Otis Sawtell Wallis (1943) — Scarweather by Anthony Rolls (1934) — The Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters — The Tomb of Zeus by Barbara Cleverly (2007) — Clash by Ellen Wilkinson (1926) — Night Without End by Alistair MaClean (1959) — Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MaClean (1960) — The Arctic Patrol Mystery by Franklin W Dixon, a.k.a. Andrew E Svenson (1969) — The Affair of the Scarlet Crab by Clifford Knight (1937) — The Pinks: The First Women Detectives, Operatives, and Spies with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency by Chris Enss (2007) — She Came Back by Patricia Wentworth (1945) — The Scapegoat by Daphne Du Maurier (1957) — A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie (1950) — And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (1939) — Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (1934) — Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (1937) — Death and the Pleasant Voices by Mary Fitt (1946) — Excellent Intentions by Richard Hull (1938) — Death of an Author by ECR Lorac (1935) — Unexpected Night by Elizabeth Daly (1940) — And Then Put Out the Night by ECR Lorac (1949) — Murder After Christmas by Rupert Latimer (1944) — Weekend at Thrackley by Alan Melville (1934) — The Avenging Parrot by Anne Austin (1930) — The Chinese Parrot by Earl Derr Biggers (1926) — The Case of the Perjured Parrot by Erle Stanley Gardner (1947) — Whose Body? by Dorothy L Sayers (1923) — The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon (2007) — Shelomo Ben-Israel's David Tidhar detective stories — And So To Murder by John Dickson Carr (1940) — A Bullet in the Ballet by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon (1937) — Artists in Crime by Ngaio Marsh (1938) — Murder in Stained Glass by Margaret Armstrong (1939) — The Cat Saw Murder by Dolores Hitchens (1940) — Nine Times Nine by Anthony Boucher (1940) — Rocket to the Morgue by Anthony Boucher (1942) — The Cornish Coast Murder by John Bude (1935) — Byomkesh Bakshi mysteries by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay

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A conversation about how Shedunnit is made.

Mentioned in this episode: — Death and the Sisters by Heather Redmond — Murder of a Lady by Anthony Wynne — The Birthday Murder by Lange Lewis — Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson

Authors Mentioned: — Richard and Frances Lockridge — Rudolph Fisher

Mentioned Shedunnit episodes: — Miss Marple, Spinster Sleuth (Ad Free) — Bonus: What is Cosy?

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Time travelling, murder mystery style.

Mentioned in this episode: — The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie — The Plague Court Murders by John Dickson Carr — Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie — The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L Sayers — A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh — Death of a Ghost by Margery Allingham — Checkmate to Murder by ECR Lorac — That Yew Tree's Shade by Cyril Hare — Tenant for Death by Cyril Hare — A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie — From Doon With Death by Ruth Rendell — Cover Her Face by PD James — The Face of Trespass by Ruth Rendell — Malice Aforethought by Frances Iles — Before the Fact by Frances Iles — The Crozier Pharaohs by Gladys Mitchell — Speedy Death by Gladys Mitchell — Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie — Original Sin by PD James — End of Chapter by Nicholas Blake — Case Histories by Kate Atkinson — The Secret Place by Tana French

Mentioned Shedunnit episodes: — A Century of Whodunnits (Ad Free) — A Second Century of Whodunnits (Ad Free) — The Kidnap of Elizabeth Canning (Ad Free), with guest Tana French

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This is the Shedunnit Book Club companion episode for January 2024, in which we are reading The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie. There are no major spoilers in this primer, but if you'd rather read the book with no knowledge of its plot or structure at all, I'd recommend listening only once you've finished reading. I’ll see you in the Shedunnit forum for our fully spoilered discussion thread on 31st January.

Links: — The reading themes for 2024 — The book suggestions thread — Watching party ideas thread

Sign up via email to be alerted when the watching party is about to start — next month's watching party will be happening on Sunday 28th January at 5pm GMT. Suggestions for what we watch are very welcome in this forum thread.

In February our book is The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson, and in March we're reading Trent’s Last Case by E.C. Bentley.

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Welcome to your audiobook for January 2024. This month, the book club has voted to read Agatha Christie’s The Man in the Brown Suit to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its publication, and in similar fashion the story I am reading to you is G.K. Chesterton’s “The Oracle of the Dog,” first published in Nash's Magazine in December 1923.

The mystery involves the murder of the wealthy Colonel Druce in his garden. The conundrum is that the murdered man was apparently being watched by multiple people at the time of his death, yet nobody saw him being killed. The most important witness to the crime, however, is the dog.

If you enjoy this story, then I recommend you have a listen, or re-listen, to The Detective’s Best Friend episode, which discusses the relationship between dogs and crime fiction. You might also be interested to revisit a previous audiobook, "The Adventure of the Creeping Man" by Arthur Conan Doyle.

After listening, if you'd like to discuss these stories with other members or make suggestions for me to record in the future, head over to the audiobook club area of the forum to do that.

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Renée read her first detective novel in the 1930s. She hasn’t stopped since.

This archive episode of Shedunnit (my personal favourite of all the ones I've ever made) was first published on 2nd September 2020.

You can read Renée's obituary here. Her crime novels, The Wild Card and Blood Matters, are available from all good booksellers.

Become a member of the Shedunnit Book Club and get bonus audio, listen to ad free episodes and join a book-loving community at shedunnitshow.com/bookclub.

Books and sources: —These Two Hands by Renée —Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers —Wednesday to come by Renée —Setting the table by Renée —An interview with Renée from 2017 on RNZ

As promised, this bonus episode provides a complete breakdown of fascinating trends involving the book club's voting polls and short list results. Leandra and I discuss these findings and how they will impact the Shedunnit Book Club in 2024, if at all.

If you would like to read through the findings before, after, or as you listen to our discussion, you can find them in this bonus episode forum thread.

Caroline and Guy discuss The Box of Delights by John Masefield, a beloved children's book from 1935 that might actually be a golden age detective novel too.