(Old feed) Shedunnit Book Club — Seasoned Detectives

One chilly night in November 1912, a group of young women gathered together to share their writing with each other. From that meeting, we got Peter Wimsey, Harriet Vane, and so much more besides.

Find links to all the books and sources mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/mas.

Special thanks today to my guest Mo Moulton, you can follow them on Twitter @hammock_tussock and order their book The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers And Her Oxford Circle Remade The World For Women at Amazon, Waterstones, Hive or your local independent bookshop.

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: —Mutual Admiration Society  by Mo Moulton —Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Live and Soul  by Barbara Reynolds —Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers —Have His Carcase  by Dorothy L. Sayers —Gaudy Night  by Dorothy L. Sayers —Busman's Honeymoon  by Dorothy L. Sayers

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Here’s my full interview with Kate Young from the Dining With Death episode of the podcast — we talked all about food and fiction, as well as her childhood reading of Agatha Christie growing up in Australia. For the original credits and links to Kate’s work, see shedunnitshow.com/diningwithdeath.

This is the Shedunnit Book Club companion episode for October 2019, in which we are reading Police at the Funeral 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 on 31 October for our full discussion thread.

The detective's sidekick is a fundamental building block of the classic whodunnit. But they don't often get full credit for the vital role they play in solving mysteries. Until now, that is.

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Books and sources: —A Caribbean Mystery  by Agatha Christie —The Complete Sherlock Holmes  by Arthur Conan Doyle —The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe —The Detective As Reader: Narrativity And Reading Concepts In Detective Fiction by Peter Hühn —Closure in Detective Fiction by Eyal Segal —The Red House Mystery  by A.A. Milne —The Murder of Roger Ackroyd  by Agatha Christie —The Mysterious Affair at Styles  by Agatha Christie —Mystery Mile by Margery Allingham —Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers —The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie —Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers —Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers —Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie —Mrs McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie —Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie —Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie —Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers —Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers

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There's something so linear and definite about a train journey — it can only take you from A to B, with no possible deviations. Except when murder intervenes, and throws everything off the rails.

Find links to all the books mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/offtherails.

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: —The Complete Sherlock Holmes  by Arthur Conan Doyle —"The Fallow Fields of Fiction" by Arnold Bennett in The Author's Craft: And Other Critical Writings of Arnold Bennett —The Edwardian Detective: 1901-15 by Joseph A Kestner —Thrilling Stories of the Railway by V.L. Whitechurch —The Cask  by Freeman Wills Crofts —Bloody Murder  by Julian Symons —Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-19  by Curtis Evans —"A Mystery of the Underground" by John Oxenham, collected in Capital Crimes: London Mysteries —4.50 from Paddington  by Agatha Christie —The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie —The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie —Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie —An Autobiography by Agatha Christie —The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan —Stamboul Train by Graham Greene —Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith —The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White —The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins —The Railway Detective by Edward Marston

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Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details.

Even the best detectives get stuck during their cases. Wouldn't sleuthing be so much easier if the dead could speak to the living?

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Books and sources in order of appearance: —Strong Poison  by Dorothy L. Sayers —Peril at End House  by Agatha Christie —Murder Most Unladylike  by Robin Stevens —The Plague Court Murders  by John Dickson Carr —When Last I Died  by Gladys Mitchell —The Sittaford Mystery  by Agatha Christie —Dumb Witness  by Agatha Christie —"The Last Seance" in The Hound of Death  by Agatha Christie

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Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. But three times? Three women dead in identical circumstances is highly suspicious. This is the story of the brides in the bath.

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Books and sources in order of appearance: —The Magnificent Spilsbury and the Brides in the Bath by Jane Robins —Notable British Trials: George Joseph Smith —British Newspaper Archive —Murder on the Links  by Agatha Christie —Unnatural Death  by Dorothy L. Sayers —Busman's Honeymoon  by Dorothy L. Sayers —A Caribbean Mystery  by Agatha Christie —The Bath Mysteries  by E.R. Punshon —"Three Is A Lucky Number" in The Allingham Casebook  by Margery Allingham

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Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/bridesinthebathtranscript.

Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details.

This is the Shedunnit Book Club companion episode for August 2019, in which we are reading The Saltmarsh Murders by Gladys Mitchell. 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 31 August for our full discussion thread.

Here are two full interviews from the very first episode of Shedunnit, most of which had to be cut from the final episode. Academics Rosemary Cresswell and Camilla Parkinson talk about the historical background to the idea of “surplus women” in Britain after WWI, and how this has influenced literature, particularly detective fiction. For the original credits of the episode and links to both of my interviewees work, see shedunnitshow.com/surpluswomen.

Here is the full uncut interview with Robin Stevens from the Back to School episode. Listen using the player above, your private podcast feed (instructions here) or download the mp3 directly here.

I am an unashamedly massive fan of Robin’s schoolgirl detectives, Daisy and Hazel, and I really enjoyed getting to hear a bit about what goes on behind the scenes to create their adventures. Robin also talks about her own background in murder mysteries, and we discuss about some of the best school-based whodunnits and why they work so well.