(Old feed) Shedunnit Book Club — Seasoned Detectives

Invert everything you think you know about murder mysteries.

Mentioned in this episode: — "The Case of Oscar Brodski” by R. Austin Freeman — The Mystery of 31, New Inn by R. Austin Freeman — The Red Thumb Mark by R. Austin Freeman — John Thorndyke's Cases by R. Austin Freeman — "A Wastrel's Romance” by R. Austin Freeman — “The Art of the Detective Story” by R. Austin Freeman — The Adventures of Romney Pringle by Clifford Ashdown (aka R. Austin Freeman and John Pitcairn) — Inspecting Psychology by David Cohen — History of the Psychoanalytic Movement by Sigmund Freud — The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers — Speedy Death by Gladys Mitchell — The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie — The “Florence Maybrick I” and “Florence Maybrick II” episodes of Shedunnit — The Wychford Poisoning Case by Anthony Berkeley — The Psychology of Anthony Berkeley episode of Shedunnit — Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles — The Case of the April Fools by Christopher Bush — The 12.30 from Croydon by Freeman Wills Crofts — Enter a Murderer by Ngaio Marsh

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Caroline and Leandra recommend their favourite festive short stories to each other and to you, and discuss what makes the shorter form suited to Christmassy subject matter.

Both “Waxworks” by Ethel Lina White and “A Necklace of Pearls” by Dorothy L. Sayers are available in the Silent Nights anthology from British Library Crime Classics.

For more festive book chatter, you might want to follow the podcast on Instagram @ShedunnitShow, or follow Caroline @cacrampton and Leandra @leandra_thetbrzero individually. Leandra also has a great bookish YouTube channel.

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Why do murder mysteries contain so many vicars?

Mentioned in this episode: — Measuring religious affiliation in Great Britain by Clive D. Field — The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers — Death in Holy Orders by P.D. James — The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie — Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers — Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death by James Runcie — “The Blue Cross” by G.K. Chesterton from The Innocence of Father Brown — Literary Distractions by Ronald Knox — The Cadfael Chronicles by Ellis Peters — Quiet as a Nun by Antonia Fraser — St Peter’s Finger by Gladys Mitchell — Close Quarters by Michael Gilbert — The Black Seraphim by Michael Gilbert — Holy Disorders by Edmund Crispin — “The Guilty Vicarage” by W.H. Auden — Busman’s Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers — Christianity and the Detective Story edited by Anya Morlan and Walter Raubicheck — The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler

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This is the Shedunnit Book Club companion episode for November 2022, in which we are reading Six Against The Yard by the Detection Club. 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 30th November.

Further listening:

• “The Detection Club”, August 2020
• “The Rules Remastered”, March 2022
• “Round Robin”, March 2019
• “Double Trouble”, September 2021

Sign up via email to be alerted when the watching party is about to start — it's happening on Sunday 27th November at 5pm GMT. Suggestions for what we watch very welcome in this forum thread.

In December we’re reading Tied Up In Tinsel by Ngaio Marsh and in January we’ll be doing Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers

The voting is currently open for what we read in February 2023, so head over to the forum now to have your say.

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.

This is your audiobook for November 2022. This story was first published in the 1909 collection John Thorndyke's Cases, and it helped to establish the titular detective as one of Edwardian crime fiction’s foremost sleuths. Dr Thorndyke is a so-called “medical jurispractitioner” who has been cited as an early example of a forensic investigator.

In which Caroline is the guest, not the host.

Caroline Crampton is the host of Shedunnit. You can find out what she does when she’s not hosting this podcast at carolinecrampton.com or on Instagram @cacrampton. Guy Cuthbertson is her husband. His website is guycuthbertson.com and he tweets @guywjc.

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The Shedunnit Pledge Drive continues! Existing members can get access this year’s pledge drive perk, the Shedunnit Guide to Golden Age Detective Fiction, right now here, and as a thank you for already being a member, during the pledge drive you can gift a year's membership to Shedunnit to a friend for free — head to shedunnitbookclub.com/gift2022 to do that now. For more information on this see shedunnitbookclub.com/pledgedrive or contact our membership coordinator on [email protected].

Mentioned in this episode: — The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis — Howards’ Way (TV series) — The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman — Miranda Sawyer’s review of the podcast in the Observer — The Allusionist by Helen Zaltzman — The ‘A Mysterious Glossary’ episode of Shedunnit, featuring Helen Zaltzman — It Walks By Night by John Dickson Carr — The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins — Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers — The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers — The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie — The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot — Ulysses by James Joyce — Cat Among The Pigeons by Agatha Christie — The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace — Evil Under The Sun by Agatha Christie — ‘The Challenge of Dorothy L. Sayers’ episode of Shedunnit — Death at the President’s Lodging by Michael Innes — “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allen Poe — ‘The Long Shadow of Edgar Allen Poe’ episode of Shedunnit — 'The First Whodunnit' episode of Shedunnit — The Bath Mysteries by E. R. Punshon — The 'Brides in the Bath’ episode of Shedunnit — Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie — Death in a White Tie by Ngaio Marsh — Death in White Pyjamas by John Bude — Death in High Heels by Christianna Brand — Death in Venice by Thomas Mann — Death Under Gibraltar by Bernard Newman — Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie — Death at the Bar by Ngaio Marsh — Death on Paper by John Bude — Death at the Opera by Gladys Mitchell — Death of a Train by Freeman Wills Crofts — Death of a Cad by John Bude

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Meet Leandra, Shedunnit’s production assistant. She has been working with the show for a few months now behind the scenes, and we thought it was time for book club members to get to know her better. In this conversation, Caroline asks Leandra about her mystery reading background, her graduate thesis about an Agatha Christie novel, and her online reading activity.

You can follow Leandra on Instagram @leandra_thetbrzero and find her YouTube channel here. Listeners of this episode might enjoy her recent video about “reading pet peeves”, in which she expands on a few of the topics touched on here.

There’s a dark story connecting this 18th century abduction with a 20th century crime novel.

Thanks to my guest, Tana French. The new Penguin edition of The Franchise Affair, which includes her introduction, is available now. And Tana's own latest novel is The Searcher, now available in paperback.

This episode contains minor spoilers for The Franchise Affair.

This episode also marks the start of the Shedunnit Pledge Drive! Existing members can get access this year’s pledge drive perk, the Shedunnit Guide to Golden Age Detective Fiction, right now here, and as a thank you for already being a member, during the pledge drive you can gift a year's membership to Shedunnit to a friend for free. For more information on this see shedunnitbookclub.com/pledgedriveformembers or contact our membership coordinator on [email protected].

Mentioned in this episode: — The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey — Tom Jones by Henry Fielding — Amelia by Henry Fielding — The Canning Wonder by Arthur Machen — Elizabeth is Missing by Lillian de la Torre — The Canning Enigma by John Treherne — The Appearance of Truth: The Story of Elizabeth Canning and 18th Century Narrative by Judith Moore — Josephine Tey: A Life by Jennifer Morag Henderson

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This is the Shedunnit Book Club companion episode for October 2022, in which we are reading Vintage Murder by Ngaio Marsh. 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 October.

Further listening:

• The Secret Life of Ngaio Marsh [3 April 2019]
• Ngaio Marsh Goes Home (Queens of Crime at War 5) [16 November 2021]
• Death and The Dancing Footman primer [1 January 2020]
• The Nursing Home Murder primer [4 June 2020]
• Death At The Bar primer [25 March 2021]

The voting is currently open for what we read in January 2023, so head over to the forum now to have your say.

In November we’re reading the Detection Club short story collaboration Six Against The Yard, and in December we’re doing Tied Up In Tinsel by Ngaio Marsh (yes, her again).

Sign up via email to be alerted when the next watching party is about to start — it's happening on Sunday 30th October at 5pm GMT and you can vote now to choose what we watch. Suggestions for what we watch in future months very welcome in the forum.

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 everything we thought about murder mysteries was wrong?

Thanks to my guest, Benedict Morrison. Among his many publications, you can read him on Agatha Christie's theatrical work in the Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie.

Mentioned in this episode: — The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie — A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie — The “Queer Clues” episode of Shedunnit — Towards Zero by Agatha Christie — The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie — Suddenly At His Residence aka The Crooked Wreath by Christianna Brand — The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie — Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie — Queering Agatha Christie by J.C. Bernthal

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.