(Old feed) Shedunnit Book Club — Seasoned Detectives

This is the Shedunnit Book Club Conversation episode for January 2025, in which we are reading The Paddington Mystery by John Rode. This is part two of a two-part experience: in part one, you can hear some basic context and publication information for this book without any spoilers and this, part two, is a fully spoilered discussion between Caroline and Leandra about the book. Feedback or comments on this approach are very welcome in the forum, where we'll also see you for our fully spoilered discussion thread on 31st January 2025.

Links: — The reading themes for 2024 — The reading themes for 2025 — The new book suggestions category — Thread for discussing improvements to the book club — Details of the December Watching Party

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In February we are reading The Conjure Man Dies by Rudolph Fisher, and in March the chosen book is Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter.

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Reading the mysteries of the past 100 years.

Books mentioned in this episode: — 1925: The Paddington Mystery by John Rhode — The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie — 1935: Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers — The Omnibus of Crime: Great Short Stories of Detection — The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie — 1945: Coroner's Pidgin by Margery Allingham (also published as: Pearls Before Swine) — 1955: Tour de Force by Christianna Brand — Green for Danger by Christianna Brand — Suddenly at His Residence by Christianna Brand — 1965: At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie — 1975: Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters — Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie — A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters — 1985: B is for Burglar by Sue Grafton — 1995: The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid — 2005: Still Life by Louise Penny — 2015: The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins — 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie

Related Shedunnit episodes: — Whodunnit Centenary: 1924 (Ad Free) — The Shedunnit Centenary (Ad Free) — A Century of Whodunnits (Ad Free) — A Second Century of Whodunnits (Ad Free)

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.

Welcome to your audiobook for January 2025, "I Meet Mr Pepper" and "The Burglary in Middlesex Street" by Basil Thomson, two short stories collected in Mr Pepper, Investigater by Basil Thomson. The collection was first published in 1925, making it the perfect selection for the club’s Centenary Month, in which we are thinking about works published a hundred years ago. The titular detective in these humorous short stories is Mr Pepper, described as an American reporter-cum-investigator with a low opinion of Scotland Yard.

After listening, if you'd like to discuss these stories with other members or make suggestions for me to record in the future, head over to the audiobook club area of the forum to do that.

There’s always more to say about detective fiction.

Books mentioned in this episode: — The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie — The Secret Place by Tana French — The Crozier Pharaohs by Gladys Mitchell — Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie — The Examiner by Janice Hallett — The Appeal by Janice Hallett — The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L Sayers and Robert Eustace — Three-A-Penny by Lucy Beatrice Malleson — Portrait of a Murderer by Portrait of a Murderer — Death in Fancy Dress by Anthony Gilbert — The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L Sayers — The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie — The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie — The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett — Murder's A Swine by Nap Lombard — The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin — The Organ Speaks by E.C.R. Lorac — Death in Dwelly Lane by Frank Vigor Morley — Agatha Christie: Mistress of Mystery by Gordon C. Ramsey — "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" by Arthur Conan Doyle — His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle — A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle — Hard Liver by Anthony Weymouth — “Death Sits in the Dentist’s Chair” by Cornell Woolrich, collected in Darkness at Dawn: Early Suspense Classics — Mr Fortune, Please by H.C. Bailey — Black Land, White Land by H.C. Bailey

Shedunnit episodes mentioned in this episode: — Whodunnit Centenary: 1924 (Ad Free) — A Reading Life (Ad Free) — Lucy, Anthony, and Anne (Ad Free) — The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Green Penguin Book Club 1, Ad Free) — The Murder on the Links (Green Penguin Book Club 2, Ad Free) — The Thin Man (Green Penguin Book Club 3, Ad Free) — Instrument of Death (Ad Free) — Edmund Crispin's Inside Jokes (Ad Free) — Death at the Speakeasy (Ad Free) — In The Dentist's Chair (Ad Free) — Mr Fortune, Please (Green Penguin Book Club 4, Ad Free) — Mysterious Knitting (Ad Free)

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.

Last December, Leandra and I discussed a complete breakdown of the trends and statistics involving the book club's voting polls and short list results. As that bonus episode received positive reactions from club members, Leandra and I discuss these findings again for 2024's voting trends and how they will impact the Shedunnit Book Club in 2025, if at all.

If you would like to read through the findings before, after, or as you listen to our discussion, you can find them in this bonus episode forum thread.

The magical spirit of Christmas is the perfect cover for a murder mystery.

Mentioned in this episode: — "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" by Arthur Conan Doyle, collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding" by Agatha Christie, collected in The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and a Selection of Entrées — "The Necklace of Pearls" by Dorothy L Sayers, collected in Silent Nights — Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie — Crime at Christmas by C.H.B. Kitchin — Portrait of a Murderer by Anne Meredith — An English Murder by Cyril Hare — Groaning Spinney by Gladys Mitchell — The Case of the Abominable Snowman by Nicholas Blake — Mystery in White by J. Jefferson Farjeon — “A Present from Santa Claus” by Julian Symons, collected in Murder on a Winter's Night — L'Assassinat du Père Noël Pierre Véry [English trans. The Murder of Father Christmas] — Murder After Christmas by Rupert Latimer — Murder for Christmas by Francis Duncan — “Who Killed Father Christmas?” by Patricia Moyes, collected in Who Killed Father Christmas? — “The Santa Claus Club” by Julian Symons, collected in Crimson Snow — The Santa Claus Murder by Mavis Doriel Hay — "‘Twixt the Cup and the Lip” by Julian Symons, collected in The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories — "The Case of the Man with the Sack” by Margery Allingham, collected in Crimson Snow — The White Priory Murders by John Dickson Carr — "The Snapdragon and the C.I.D." by Margery Allingham, collected in Murder at Christmas — “The Case is Altered” by Margery Allingham, collected in Silent Nights — “Among Those Present was Santa Claus” by Vincent Cornier, collected in Who Killed Father Christmas?

More Festive Shedunnit episodes: — Crime at Christmas (Ad Free) — Let It Snow (Replay, Ad Free) — A Christie for Christmas (Ad Free) — The Murderless Christmas Mystery (Ad Free)

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.

This is the Shedunnit Book Club Fact File episode for December 2024, in which we are reading Who Killed the Curate? by Joan Coggin. There are no major spoilers here. In this fact file, you'll hear Caroline giving some basic context and publication information for the book without any spoilers. Then, if you head to part two — the conversation — you'll find a fully spoilered discussion between Caroline and Leandra about this book. Feedback or comments on this approach are very welcome in the forum, where we'll also see you for our fully spoilered discussion thread on 20th December 2024.

Links: — The reading themes for 2024 — The reading themes for 2025 — The new book suggestions category — Thread for discussing improvements to the book club — Details of the December Watching Party

Sign up via email to be alerted when the watching party is about to start — the next one is happening on Saturday 14th December at 5pm BST.

In January 2025 we are reading The Paddington Mystery by John Rode and in February the chosen book is The Conjure Man Dies by Rudolph Fisher.

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 the Shedunnit Book Club Conversation episode for December 2024, in which we are reading Who Killed the Curate? by Joan Coggin. This is part two of a two-part experience: in part one, you can hear some basic context and publication information for this book without any spoilers and this, part two, is a fully spoilered discussion between Caroline and Leandra about the book. Feedback or comments on this approach are very welcome in the forum, where we'll also see you for our fully spoilered discussion thread on 20th December 2024.

Links: — The reading themes for 2024 — The reading themes for 2025 — The new book suggestions category — Thread for discussing improvements to the book club — Details of the December Watching Party

Sign up via email to be alerted when the watching party is about to start — the next one is happening on Saturday 14th December at 5pm BST.

In January 2025 we are reading The Paddington Mystery by John Rode and in February the chosen book is The Conjure Man Dies by Rudolph Fisher.

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.

Welcome to your audiobook for December 2024, "The Raffles Relics" by E.W. Hornung. First published in September 1905 by Pall Mall Magazine in London, this tale sees gentleman thief A.J. Raffles and his companion-biographer, Bunny Manders, visit the memorabilia the police have collected of their own crimes at the so-called Black Museum at Scotland Yard. Will they be recognised and apprehended?

After listening, if you'd like to discuss these stories with other members or make suggestions for me to record in the future, head over to the audiobook club area of the forum to do that.

The creator of amateur sleuth Gervase Fen loved to make fun of detective fiction.

Mentioned in this episode: — The Crooked Hinge by John Dickson Carr — Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin: A Life in Music and Books by David Whittle — The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin — Love Lies Bleeding by Edmund Crispin — The Glimpses of the Moon by Edmund Crispin — The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin — Swan Song by Edmund Crispin — Holy Disorders by Edmund Crispin — Frequent Hearses by Edmund Crispin — Buried for Pleasure by Edmund Crispin — Hamlet, Revenge! by Michael Innes — The Long Divorce by Edmund Crispin — "We Know You're Busy Writing, But We Thought You Wouldn't Mind If We Just Dropped In For A Minute" by Edmund Crispin

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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.