(Old feed) Shedunnit Book Club — Seasoned Detectives

This is the Shedunnit Book Club companion episode for June 2020, in which we are reading The Nursing Home Murder by Ngaio Marsh. There is a brief non-spoilery plot summary included, but you can definitely listen to this even if you haven’t finished the book yet and it won’t ruin the ending. I’ll see you in the Shedunnit forum shortly for our full discussion thread on 30 June.

This bonus episodes includes all of the (audible!) contributions I received from listeners for The Collectors episode in full, including my whole interview with LA-based mega collector David Morris.

This is the Shedunnit Book Club companion episode for May 2020, in which we are reading The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham. There is a brief non-spoilery plot summary included, but you can definitely listen to this even if you haven’t finished the book yet and it won’t ruin the ending. I’ll see you in the Shedunnit forum shortly for our full discussion thread on 31 May.

It's not who, or how, but why.

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Books and sources: —Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers —Heir Presumptive by Henry Wade —The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers —The Footsteps at the Lock by Ronald Knox —The Crooked Hinge by John Dickson Carr —Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey —The Belting Inheritance by Julian Symons —Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie —The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie —After the Funeral by Agatha Christie —The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne —Too Many Cousins by Douglas G Browne —Dead March for Penelope Blow by George Bellairs —4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie —Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham —The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin —"The Fascinating Problem of Uncle Meleaguer’s Will” and "The Piscatorial Farce of the Stolen Stomach” by Dorothy L. Sayers, both collected in Lord Peter Views the Body

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The perfect collection is never complete.

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Books and sources: —Dance of the Years by Margery Allingham —Mrs McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie —Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie —Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie —Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie —Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie —Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie —Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie —The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie —The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie —The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie

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Is that smiling nurse in the pristine white cap here to save your life, or to bring it to an untimely end?

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Books and sources: —The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins —Shroud for a Nightingale by P.D. James —Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens —Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers —Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie —"The Blue Geranium" in The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie —The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie —Hilda Wade by Grant Allen —Miss Pinkerton by Mary Roberts Rinehart —Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers —Don't Open the Door by Anthony Gilbert —Scales of Justice by Ngaio Marsh —The Nursing Home Murder by Ngaio Marsh —Cherry Ames, Student Nurse by Helen Wells —Green for Danger by Christianna Brand

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Here’s my full interview with Mo Moulton, who I interviewed last year for episode 25 of the podcast, The Mutual Admiration Society. Mo is a Senior Lecturer in history at the University of Birmingham but really kindly travelled up to Liverpool for the day so we could speak in person. I hope you enjoy hearing all about the early years of Dorothy L. Sayers and her friends at university and the research process behind Mo’s book. And if you haven’t read it yet and are looking for a distraction at the moment, I think The Mutual Admiration Society is that incredibly rare thing — a really scholarly book that is also compulsively readable.

All the best murder mysteries start with a scone laced with arsenic.

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Books and sources: —The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards —A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn Harkup —Exhumation of a Murder by Robin Odell —Dead Not Buried by Martin Beales —Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles —The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley —Detection Unlimited by Georgette Heyer —Murder Is Easy by Agatha Christie —Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers —Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers —Bernard Spilsbury: His Life and Cases by Douglas E Browne and EV Tullett

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This is the Shedunnit Book Club companion episode for April 2020, in which we are reading Swan Song by Edmund Crispin. There is a brief non-spoilery plot summary included, but you can definitely listen to this even if you haven’t finished the book yet and it won’t ruin the ending. I’ll see you in the Shedunnit forum shortly for our full discussion thread on 30 April.

There's a reason why Agatha Christie knew so much about poisons.

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Books and sources: —The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie —A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn Harkup —"In a Dispensary" by Agatha Christie from the collection The Road of Dreams —Agatha Christie: A Biography by Janet Morgan —An Autobiography by Agatha Christie —Guardian Obituary: Rosalind Hicks by Janet Morgan —The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie —Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie —"Dame Agatha's Dispensary" by Eunice Bonow Bardell in Pharmacy in History, Vol. 26, No. 1 (1984)

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