(Old feed) Shedunnit Book Club — Seasoned Detectives

Decades before Miss Marple, there were Victorian lady sleuths taking on the world with their bloomers and their bicycles.

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Special thanks today to my guest Olivia Rutigliano. You can follow her on Twitter @oldrutigliano and reader her recent article for Lapham's Quarterly "The Lady Is A Detective" here.

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Books and sources: —The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime edited by Michael Sims —The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories edited by Michael Sims

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This is the Shedunnit Book Club companion episode for January 2020, in which we are reading Death and the Dancing Footman 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. (I apologise for being very breathy and faint in this episode, I have been unwell!)

Here’s my full interview with Cecily Gayford, part of which originally appeared in the Crime at Christmas episode of the podcast from December 2018. Cecily is an editor at Profile Books, but she’s also a massive fan of detective fiction and has curated a number of seasonal anthologies of short stories, including Murder under the Christmas Tree and Murder on Christmas Eve.

This is a recording of the live show that I did in Dublin in November 2019 with Conor Reid of the Words to that Effect podcast. We called it “A Complete History of Detective Fiction in Just Over an Hour”, and I hope you find it entertaining and even a bit informative.

This is the Shedunnit Book Club companion episode for December 2019, in which we are reading Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie. 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. (I apologise for being super late with this! It has been a very busy month!)

Snow is a very powerful tool for a detective novelist. It can create a sinister atmosphere, keep suspects and murderer stormbound, and preserve the footprints of anyone who dares to escape. What could be more seasonal or festive than that?

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Books and sources: —Murder on the Orient Express (1934) by Agatha Christie —Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1938) by Agatha Christie —Mystery in White  (1937) by J. Jefferson Farjeon —Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries  (2015) edited by Martin Edwards —The Sittaford Mystery  (1931) by Agatha Christie —The Nine Tailors  (1934) by Dorothy L. Sayers —"The Erymanthian Boar" in The Labours of Hercules  (1947) by Agatha Christie —An English Murder  (1951) by Cyril Hare —Death and the Dancing Footman  (1942) by Ngaio Marsh —Three Blind Mice and Other Stories  (1950) by Agatha Christie —Stairway to Murder (1959) by Osmington Mills —There Came Both Mist and Snow  (1940) by Michael Innes —The Sad Variety  (1964) by Nicholas Blake —Blood Upon the Snow  (1944) by Hilda Lawrence —The Slype (1927) by by Russell Thorndike — Hangman's Holiday  (1933) by Dorothy L. Sayers —Groaning Spinney / Murder in the Snow  (1950) by Gladys Mitchell —The Case of the Abominable Snowman (1941) by Nicholas Blake —1222 (2011) by Anne Holt —The Snowman (2007) by Jo Nesbo —Whiteout (2011) by Ragnar Jonasson

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Anne Bedingfield, Emily Trefusis, Lucy Eyelesbarrow: why is it that Agatha Christie's adventurous, highly competent young women never get to become recurring sleuths?

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Books and sources: —Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks by John Curran —The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie  by Charles Osborne —An Autobiography   by Agatha Christie —The Secret Adversary (1922) by Agatha Christie —The Man in the Brown Suit  (1924) by Agatha Christie —The Sittaford Mystery  (1931) by Agatha Christie —The Secret of Chimneys  (1925) by Agatha Christie —The Seven Dials Mystery  (1929) by Agatha Christie —The Mystery of the Blue Train  (1928) by Agatha Christie —Why Didn't They Ask Evans?  (1934) by Agatha Christie —They Came to Baghdad  (1951) by Agatha Christie —4.50 From Paddington  (1957) by Agatha Christie

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Here’s my full interview with Helen Fields, part of which originally appeared in the Pseudonyms episode of the podcast. We talked about the process of launching a new pseudonym, the motivation behind it, and how having two public personas affects her writing. For the original credits and links to Helen’s work, see shedunnitshow.com/pseudonyms.

This is the Shedunnit Book Club companion episode for November 2019, in which we are reading The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. 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 on 30 November for our full discussion thread.

How did a legal history series become so well known that even Lord Peter Wimsey owned a set?

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Special thanks today to my guest Dr Victoria Stewart. You can follow her on Twitter @verbivorial and order her book Crime Writing in Interwar Britain: Fact and Fiction in the Golden Age here.

Buy tickets to the first-ever Shedunnit live shows at shedunnitshow.com/events — I'll be in Dublin on 15 November 2019 and Birmingham on 1 February 2020.

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Books and sources: —Strong Poison (1930) by Dorothy L. Sayers —A Pin To See The Peep Show  (1934) by F Tennyson Jesse —Portrait of Fryn: Biography of F.Tennyson Jesse  (1984) by Joanna Colenbrander —The Anatomy of Murder (1936) by The Detection Club —The Poisoned Chocolates Case  (1929) by Anthony Berkeley —Malice Aforethought  (1931) by Francis Iles —"Decline of the English Murder" (1946) by George Orwell —Death at the Opera  (1934) by Gladys Mitchell

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