(Old feed) Shedunnit Book Club — Seasoned Detectives

When the temperature rises, don't lose your cool.

Thanks to my guest Cecily Gayford — you can find more information about Murder in a Heatwave and all the other anthologies she has edited via the website for Profile Books.

Be aware: there are spoilers in this episode for the the story "The Vindictive Story of the Footsteps That Ran" by Dorothy L. Sayers. There are non-spoiler details given about the other books listed below.

Mentioned in this episode: — Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie — A Death in Summer by Benjamin Black — The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch — Murder in a Heatwave, edited by Cecily Gayford

Related Shedunnit episodes: — Episode 1 of "Mysteries of Summer": Cricket and Crime — Murder on Holiday — Death Under Par

NB: Links to Blackwell's are affiliate links, meaning that the podcast receives a small commission when you purchase a book there (the price remains the same for you). Blackwell's is a UK bookselling chain that ships internationally at no extra charge.

This is your audiobook for July 2023, in which we are paying tribute to some of the "early queens of crime" who dominated the short story format at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. The three stories you will hear today are: "Mr Furbush"(1865) by Harriet Prescott Spofford, "The Regent's Park Murder" (1901) by Baroness Orczy, and "The Adventure of the Clothes-Line" (1915) by Carolyn Wells. All of these and more can be found in the crime fiction anthology In the Shadow of Agatha Christie, edited by Leslie S. Klinger.

After listening, if you'd like to discuss this story 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.

This is extra audio from my interview with Andy Zaltzman, which appeared in the Cricket and Crime episode of the main podcast. A list of mentioned books is in the shownotes of that main episode. 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.

Listen using the player above, your private podcast feed (instructions here) or download the mp3 directly.

This is the Shedunnit Book Club companion episode for July 2023, in which we are reading The Turquoise Shop by Frances Crane. There is a non-spoilery plot summary included (ie no major clues or twists), but you've been warned! I’ll see you in the Shedunnit forum for our fully spoilered discussion thread on 31st July.

Links: — The reading themes for 2023 — The book suggestions thread — Watching party ideas thread — Listen to Adventures of the Abbotts on archive.org

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 30th July at 5pm BST. Suggestions for what we watch are very welcome in this forum thread.

In August, we are reading Untimely Death by Cyril Hare; in September, we will read The Frangipani Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu, and in October Fear for Miss Betony by Dorothy Bowers.

I'm going to open the voting on what we read for November very soon, so if there's anything you’d like to see on the shortlist then please do post about it in the forum or email me on [email protected].

NB: links to books at Blackwell’s are affiliate links, meaning that although the price remains the exactly same for you, the podcast receives a small commission on each purchase. Blackwell’s is an independent, family run bookseller in the UK that ships internationally at no extra charge.

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 — Testkill by Ted Dexter

Related Shedunnit episodes: — Murder on Holiday — Death Under Par — The Advertising Adventures of Dorothy L. Sayers

NB: Links to Blackwell's are affiliate links, meaning that the podcast receives a small commission when you purchase a book there (the price remains the same for you). Blackwell's is a UK bookselling chain that ships internationally at no extra charge.

How do we approach offensive language in texts from previous times?

Thank you to my guest, Subhadra Das. If you are interested in her book, (Un)Civilised: Ten Lies That Made the West, it is available for pre-order through Blackwell's and other booksellers.

Mentioned in this episode: — The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle, introduction by Shafquat Towheed — And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie — The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie — Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie — Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

Mentioned Shedunnit episodes: — A Mysterious Glossary (Ad Free)

NB: Links to Blackwell's are affiliate links, meaning that the podcast receives a small commission when you purchase a book there (the price remains the same for you). Blackwell's is a UK bookselling chain that ships internationally at no extra charge.

This is extra audio from my interview with Elly Griffiths, which appeared in A Detective's Farewell (Ad Free) of the main podcast. A list of mentioned books is in the shownotes of that main episode. You can find Elly's website here.

Listen using the player above, your private podcast feed (instructions here) or download the mp3 directly.

This is the Shedunnit Book Club companion episode for June 2023, in which we are reading Death and the Joyful Woman by Ellis Peters. There is a non-spoilery plot summary included (ie no major clues or twists), but you've been warned! I’ll see you in the Shedunnit forum for our fully spoilered discussion thread on 3oth June.

Links: — The reading themes for 2023 — 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 30th July at 5pm BST. Suggestions for what we watch are very welcome in this forum thread.

In July, we are reading The Turquoise Shop by Frances Crane; in August, we are reading Untimely Death by Cyril Hare; and in September, we will read The Frangipani Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu.

I'm going to open the voting on what we read for October very soon, so if there's anything you’d like to see on the shortlist then please do post about it in the forum or email me on [email protected].

NB: links to books at Blackwell’s are affiliate links, meaning that although the price remains the exactly same for you, the podcast receives a small commission on each purchase. Blackwell’s is an independent, family run bookseller in the UK that ships internationally at no extra charge.

This is your audiobook for June. Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers” was first published in 1917 in Every Week magazine. It was loosely based on the 1900 murder of John Hossack and subsequent trial, which Glaspell had covered as a journalist. It is considered notable both as an early example of women detectives using psychology to solve a case, and as a high point of American crime fiction published during the first world war. It was later adapted in the 1950s for the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

After listening, if you'd like to discuss this story 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.

What happens when a couple of socialists decide to write mysteries?

Thanks to my guest, Curtis Evans. If you are interested in his book, The Spectrum of the English Murder, it is available through Blackwell's and other booksellers.

Mentioned in this episode: — The Spectrum of English Murder by by Curtis Evans — The World of Labour by GDH Cole — An Introduction to Trade Unionism by GDH Cole — The Intelligent Man's Guide Through World Chaos by GDH Cole — What Marx Really Meant by GDH Cole — Whose body by Dorothy L Sayers — The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie — The Cask by Freeman Wills Crofts — The Brooklyn Murders by GDH Cole — The Death of a Millionaire by GDH and Margaret Cole — Snobbery With Violence by Colin Watson — Big Business Murder by GDH and Margaret Cole — The Brothers Sackville by GDH and Margaret Cole — Disgrace To The College by GDH and Margaret Cole — Double Blackmail by GDH and Margaret Cole — Murder at the Munition Works by GDH and Margaret Cole — Scandal at School by GDH and Margaret Cole — Burglars In Buck by GDH and Margaret Cole — Greek Tragedy by GDH and Margaret Cole — Knife in the Dark by GDH and Margaret Cole

Related Shedunnit episodes: — The Mysterious Dorothy Bowers (Ad Free) — Double Trouble (Ad Free) — Policing the Detectives (Ad Free)

NB: Links to Blackwell's are affiliate links, meaning that the podcast receives a small commission when you purchase a book there (the price remains the same for you). Blackwell's is a UK bookselling chain that ships internationally at no extra charge.