(Old feed) Shedunnit Book Club — Seasoned Detectives

And her WW2 mysteries are best of all.

This is the second episode of Queens of Crime at War, a six part series looking at what the best writers from the golden age of detective fiction did once that period came to an end with the start of the Second World War.

As part of the 2021 Shedunnit Pledge Drive, all existing members can claim a free annual membership to give to a friend (usually £50). The offer is valid until the pledge drive has met its goal of 100 new members. Click here or visit shedunnitbookclub.com/2021gift to get your gift now.

Thanks to my guest, Martin Edwards. He is a crime writer and the author of, among many other books, The Golden Age of Murder. Find out more about all his work at martinedwardsbooks.com or via his Twitter as @medwardsbooks.

There are no spoilers in this episode.

Books referenced: — The Murder on the Burrows by E.C.R. Lorac — Crime Counter Crime by E.C.R. Lorac — The Organ Speaks by E.C.R. Lorac — These Names Make Clues by E.C.R. Lorac — Bats in the Belfry by E.C.R. Lorac — The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie — Checkmate to Murder by E.C.R. Lorac — Murder by Matchlight by E.C.R. Lorac — Fell Murder by E.C.R. Lorac — Murder in St John’s Wood by E.C.R. Lorac — Murder in Chelsea by E.C.R. Lorac

The original music for this series, “The Case Of The Black Stormcloud”, was created by Martin Zaltz Austwick. Find out more about his work at martinzaltzaustwick.wordpress.com.

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 independent bookselling chain that ships internationally at no extra charge.

This is your audiobook for audiobook for October 2021 — my reading of “The Woman in the Big Hat” by Baroness Orczy, from the collection Lady Molly of Scotland Yard first published in 1910. This story, like many of the others others about Molly Robertson-Kirk and her career at Scotland Yard, is narrated by her assistant Mary Granard, and sees Lady Molly use her intuition and powers of observations to solve a case that turns on an outbreak of “feminine rage”.

Agatha Christie had a very productive WW2.

This is the start of Queens of Crime at War, a six part series looking at what the best writers from the golden age of detective fiction did once that period came to an end with the start of the Second World War.

As part of the 2021 Shedunnit Pledge Drive, all existing members can claim a free annual membership to give to a friend (usually £50). The offer is valid until the pledge drive has met its goal of 100 new members. Click here or visit shedunnitbookclub.com/2021gift to get your gift now.

Thanks to my guests: — J.C. Bernthal is an Agatha Christie scholar and the author of Queering Agatha Christie. His website is jcbernthal.com and he is on Twitter as @jcbernthal — Martin Edwards is a crime writer and the author of, among many other books, The Golden Age of Murder. Find out more about all his work at martinedwardsbooks.com or via his Twitter as @medwardsbooks

There are no spoilers in this episode.

Books referenced: — The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards — Agatha Christie Goes To War edited by Rebecca Mills and J.C. Bernthal — And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie — Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie — Murder Must Appetise by Harry Keating — The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie — The ABC Murders  by Agatha Christie — Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie — One, Two Buckle, My Shoe by Agatha Christie — An Autobiography by Agatha Christie — Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie — Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie — N or M?  by Agatha Christie — The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie — The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie — Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie — Bletchley Park: The Codebreakers of Station X by Michael Smith — The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie — Curtain by Agatha Christie — Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie — The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie — Taken at the Flood by Agatha Christie — A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie — The Hollow  by Agatha Christie — Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie

The original music for this series, “The Case Of The Black Stormcloud”, was created by Martin Zaltz Austwick. Find out more about his work at martinzaltzaustwick.wordpress.com.

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 independent bookselling chain that ships internationally at no extra charge.

Who would be the Hastings to your Poirot? What kind of mystery would you like to write? What would you do if you came across a corpse? In this special episode to celebrate Shedunnit’s third anniversary, Caroline’s husband Guy takes the mic and asks her all these questions and more.

There are no spoilers in this episode.

Listen using the player on the page at shedunnitshow.com/athomewithshedunnitadfree, your private podcast feed (instructions here) or download the mp3 directly here.

This is the full audio of my interview with Julius Green, which appeared in The Theatrical World of Agatha Christie episode of the main podcast. Julius Green is the author of Agatha Christie: A Life in Theatre, available in paperback now at all good booksellers.

There are no spoilers in this interview.

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

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 the Shedunnit Book Club companion episode for September 2021, in which we are reading Miss Pym Disposes. There is a brief non-spoilery plot summary included (ie no major twists), but you’ve been warned! I’ll see you in the Shedunnit forum for our fully spoilered discussion thread on Thursday 30th September and thereafter.

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In October we are reading A. A. Milne’s The Red House Mystery and in November our book will be Murder’s a Swine by Nap Lombard.

I’m going to open the voting on what we read for December 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].

Other episodes to check out: — The Man in the Queue — The Daughter of Time — The Singing Sands — Back to School — Queer Clues

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.

What happens when two people write a whodunnit together?

Thanks to my guests, Cordelia Biddle and Steve Zettler. They write separately under their own names and together under the pseudonym Nero Blanc. The whole Crossword Mysteries series can be found at crosswordmysteries.com, where there are links to buy each title.

There are no spoilers in this episode.

Listen using the player on the page at shedunnitshow.com/doubletroubleadfree, your private podcast feed (instructions here) or download the mp3 directly here.

Books mentioned: — Tidy Death by Nap Lombard — The Life of G.D.H. Cole by Margaret Cole — The Floating Admiral by the Detection Club — Murder’s a Swine by Nap Lombard — Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen de Guerry Simpson — Regiment of Women by Clemence Dane — The Documents in the Case by Dorothy Sayers — Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers — Busman’s Honeymoon by Dorothy Sayers — The Nursing Home Murder by Dorothy Sayers — The Crossword Murder by Nero Blanc — Death on the Diagonal by Nero Blanc

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 independent bookselling chain that ships internationally at no extra charge. Buying from them is a great way to support both the podcast and the book trade.

Agatha Christie was the most successful female playwright of all time. She also wrote some detective novels you might have heard of.

Julius Green is the author of Agatha Christie: A Life in Theatre, available in paperback now at all good booksellers. You can catch him at the International Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay on 18th September giving a talk about “Poirot on Stage” and the staged reading of The Stranger that we talked about is on 17th September at the Palace Theatre in Paignton.

There are no spoilers in this episode.

Listen using the player on the page at shedunnitshow.com/thetheatricalworldofagathachristieadfree, your private podcast feed (instructions here) or download the mp3 directly here.

This is the full audio of my interview with Sophie Hannah, which appeared in the Is Agatha Christie A Good Writer? episode of the main podcast. If you’re interested in reading more of Sophie’s views on this subject, I recommend her introduction to the new edition of H.R.F. Keating’s essay collection Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime. Sophie’s latest Poirot continuation novel is The Killings at Kingfisher Hill and is available from all good booksellers. Find out more about all of her books at sophiehannah.com and follow her on Twitter as @sophiehannahCB1. Her podcast is called How To Hold A Grudge and is available in all the usual places you get podcasts.

There are no spoilers in this interview.

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.

I’m taking a summer break this week, so in the meantime please enjoy this classic Shedunnit from July 2020, all about what happens when detectives go on holiday. Find more information about the books mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/murderonholiday.

Listen using the player on the page at murderonholidayreplay, your private podcast feed (instructions here) or download the mp3 directly here.