(Old feed) Shedunnit Book Club — Seasoned Detectives

This is the Shedunnit Book Club companion episode for April 2023, in which we are reading The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö. There is a non-spoilery plot summary and some discussion of structure included, so you've been warned! I’ll see you in the Shedunnit forum for our fully spoilered discussion thread on 30th April.

Links: — Vote for our July book — 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 — the next one is happening on Sunday 30th April at 5pm BST.

Coming up: in May our book is Wildfire at Midnight by Mary Stewart and in June we reading Death and the Joyful Woman by Ellis Peters.

The voting for what we read for August will be opening 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 a UK bookseller that ships internationally at no extra charge.

Step inside the mortuary.

Thanks to my guest, Carla Valentine, for joining me. Her book, Murder Isn't Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie, has lots more on this subject, as does her previous appearance on Shedunnit, Murder Isn't Easy.

Mentioned in the episode: — Murder Isn't Easy by Carla Valentine — The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie — The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie — 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie — Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers — "The Lernean Hydra" by Agatha Christie, featured in The Labours of Hercules — Notable Trials books (Shedunnit episode on the subject linked below) — One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie

Related Shedunnit episodes: — Murder Isn't Easy (Ad Free) — Notable Trials (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 the full audio of my tour while visiting Greenway House, the holiday home of Agatha Christie and her family, which appeared in the At Home With Agatha Christie of the main podcast.

You can learn more about Greenway and the things to see in Greenway House via the links provided. Many thanks to National Trust volunteer Clive for his thorough tour of Greenway House.

Come with me on a tour of Greenway.

Special thanks to Clive and everyone at the National Trust for making me and my microphone welcome at Greenway, and to Sarah Thrift for arranging it. I'm also grateful to my friend Elizabeth Minkel, who spent the afternoon doing this even though she has only read one Christie novel in her whole life. She has her own podcast, Fansplaining, which I highly recommend.

Books mentioned in this episode: — Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie — Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie — Ordeal by Innocence by Agatha Christie — Towards Zero by Agatha Christie — Agatha Christie An Autobiography by Agatha Christie — Tied Up In Tinsel by Ngaio Marsh

Related Shedunnit episodes about Agatha Christie: — Agatha Christie Writes Alone — Agatha's Archaeologists — The Dispenser

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 the Shedunnit Book Club companion episode for March 2023, in which we are reading Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay. 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 March.

Links:

— The reading themes for 2023 — The book suggestions thread — Watching party ideas thread — Back To School, an episode about the school setting — The Mysterious Dorothy Bowers, an episode all about the lesser known author

Mysteries by Mavis Doriel Hay (in order): — Murder Underground — Death on the Cherwell — The Santa Claus Murder

Sign up via email to be alerted when the watching party is about to start — the next one is happening on Sunday 26th March at 5pm GMT.

Coming up: in April we are reading The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö, and in May our book is Wildfire at Midnight by Mary Stewart.

The voting for what we read for June will be opening 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 a UK bookseller that ships internationally at no extra charge.

What if you are found neither innocent nor guilty?

Books mentioned in this episode — The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins — The House in Queen Anne Square by William Darling Lyell — Madeleine Smith: A Tragi-Comedy in Two Acts by Winifred Duke — Trial of Madeleine Smith (Notable British Trials), appraisal by F. Tennyson Jesse — Murder and Morality in Victorian Britain by Eleanor Gordon and Gwyneth Nair — Letty Lynton by Marie Belloc Lowndes — Alas, for Her That Met Me! by Mary Ann Ashe (Christianna Brand)

Previous Shedunnit episodes mentioned — Florence Maybrick I and Florence Maybrick II, originally published 15 May and 12 June 2019 — Edith Thompson, originally published 9 January 2019

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 March 2023. Our theme for our main book club read this month is “new to us” authors, and so we’ve chosen this story by a writer who I’ve never read from before. This story was first published in the News of the World in November 1913. It features his blind detective Max Carrados — a sleuth in the mould of Sherlock Holmes.

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.

A most golden age murder.

Books mentioned in this episode — Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence — The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame — Peril at End House by Agatha Christie — The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham — There Came Both Mist and Snow by Michael Innes — Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie — Too Soon to Die by Henry Wade — The Stately Home Murder by Catherine Aird — Strange Bedfellows by Andrew Soutar — Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh — Orlando by Virginia Woolf — Coming Up for Air by George Orwell — Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

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 the full audio of my interview with Tana French, which appeared in The Kidnap of Elizabeth Canning episode of the main podcast.

If you are interested in grabbing a copy of The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey, consider getting the newly republished edition which features an introduction by Tana French herself.

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 you say goodbye to a long-running character?

Many thanks to my guest, Elly Griffiths. Her latest book is The Last Remains.

Books mentioned in this episode — Cat Among The Pigeons by Agatha Christie — The Clocks by Agatha Christie — Curtain by Agatha Christie — The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths — The Last Remains by Elly Griffiths — The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths — The Outcast Dead by Elly Griffiths — A Room Full Of Bones by Elly Griffiths — The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie — The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths — Marple: Twelve New Stories

Previous Shedunnit episodes mentioned — Swan Song (Ad Free) — Agatha Christie Writes Alone (Ad Free) — Golden Age Inspiration (Ad Free) with guest Elly Griffiths

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.