(Old feed) Shedunnit Book Club — Seasoned Detectives

Welcome to your audiobook for June 2024, “Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late” by Maurice Leblanc, which was first published in Je sais tout on 15 June 1906. 

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.

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Welcome to your audiobook for May 2024. Although the Book Club’s "railway" month isn’t until July, but I thought there was no harm getting us in the mood a bit early with a train-based short story, so this month I am reading for you "The Affair of the Corridor Express" by Victor L. Whitechurch. After magazine publication, it first appeared in a 1912 book titled Thrilling Stories of the Railway, and then was subsequently collected in the British Library volume Blood on the Tracks: Railway Mysteries. It features Whitechurch's singular "railway detective" Thorpe Hazell, who combines an encyclopaedic knowledge of Britain's train system with some peculiar Edwardian health and "wellness" habits.

Listen to me read more of Thorpe Hazell's adventures:

• How The Bank Was Saved
• Peter Crane's Cigars

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.

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In this bonus episode, Guy and John Goodby continue their conversation from the Dylan's Whodunnits episode, covering the other poets of the 1930s and their connections to detective fiction — in particular W.H. Auden and Cecil Day Lewis (aka Nicholas Blake).

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The great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas had a passion for detective stories.

John Goodby is Professor of Arts and Culture at Sheffield Hallam University, and an expert on Dylan Thomas.  He edited The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas and has co-authored a biography of Thomas.  He is also a poet, translator and arts organiser.

You can hear more of Guy and John's conversation as they cover 1930s poets beyond Dylan Thomas in this bonus episode.

Mentioned in this episode: — Murder's A Swine by Nap Lombard — The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas, edited by John Goodby — Dylan Thomas by John Goodby and Chris Wigginton — The Death of the King's Canary by Dylan Thomas and John Davenport — Ellery Queen's Poetic Justice, edited by Ellery Queen — The Three Weird Sisters (screenplay) — The Beach of Falesá, novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, adapted by Thomas — The Doctor and the Devils by Dylan Thomas — “The Waste Land” by T. S. Eliot, collected in The Waste Land — Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide by Barry Foreshaw — "The Pleasure Principle” by Philip Larkin, collected in Philip Larkin: The Complete Poems — “Fern Hill” by Dylan Thomas — "Altawise by Owl Light" by Dylan Thomas — The Oxford Book of English Verse — After the Funeral by Agatha Christie — Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas — "Deaths and Entrances" by Dylan Thomas — “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas — "And Death Shall Have No Dominion” by Dylan Thomas — “A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London” by Dylan Thomas — “Among those Killed in the Dawn Raid was a Man Aged a Hundred” by Dylan Thomas — "Return Journey," radio broadcast by Dylan Thomas

More Shedunnit episodes: — The Death of the Country House — Dorothy L Sayers Solves Her Mystery — A Mysterious Glossary

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This is the Shedunnit Book Club companion episode for May 2024, in which we are reading Black Plumes by Margery Allingham. There are no major spoilers in this primer, but if you'd rather read the book with no knowledge of its plot or structure at all, I'd recommend listening only once you've finished reading. I’ll see you in the Shedunnit forum for our fully spoilered discussion thread on 31st May 2024.

Links: — The reading themes for 2024 — The book suggestions thread — Watching party ideas thread

Sign up via email to be alerted when the watching party is about to start — next month's watching party will be happening on Sunday 26th May at 5pm BST. Suggestions for what we watch are very welcome in this forum thread.

In June we're reading Tokyo Express by Seichō Matsumoto, in July the choice is The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White, and for August we have selected An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James.

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Why didn’t the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh write more detective fiction?

My new book, A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria, is out now. To find out more and get your copy, visit my website carolinecrampton.com/abodymadeofglass.

Mentioned in this episode: — When We Were Very Young by AA Milne — Winnie-the-Pooh by AA Milne — The House At Pooh Corner by AA Milne — Mr Pim Passes By by AA Milne — The Red House Mystery by AA Milne — If I May by AA Milne — Bloody Murder by Julian Symons — Trent's Last Case by EC Bentley — The Perfect Alibi by AA Milne — Four Days' Wonder by AA Milne

Related Shedunnit episodes: — The Rules (Remastered) (Ad Free) — Enter the Watson — The Death of the Country House

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Welcome to your audiobook for April 2024. The book club voted to read These Names Make Clues by ECR Lorac for Bibliomystery month. To complement this book club choice, here is "The Blue Scarab" by R Austin Freeman. The mystery at hand involves the theft of a deed-box and some “transliteration” performed by medico-legal detective Dr. John Thorndyke. ”The Blue Scarab” was first collected in a book titled Dr. Thorndyke's Casebook in 1923.

More of Dr. Thorndyke's mysteries: — "The Blue Sequin" — "The Stranger's Latchkey"

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.

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Caroline Crampton is joined by writer Moira Redmond to talk about the Chalet School books by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer.

This is a crossover episode from another podcast series Caroline is making at the moment, A Body Made of Glass. If you head to carolinecrampton.com/abodymadeofglasspodcast, you listen to more conversations that explore the intersection of health with different aspects of medicine, scientific history, mental health and more.

To find out more about Moira Redmond and her work, follow her on Twitter @ClothesinBooks and visit her blog clothesinbooks.blogspot.com.

Caroline's new book, A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria, is available to order now. The audiobook, read by Caroline, is also available. Find out more information at her website, carolinecrampton.com, or by following her on Instagram @cacrampton.

In this bonus episode, Leandra and I tackle a topic that we think will be of particular interest to many members in the book club. We discuss the ways in which we access books for episode research, monthly book club reads, and our personal non-Shedunnit reading habits. We attempt to outline a comprehensive list of tips for accessing books, ranging from free options to paid subscriptions, as well as audiobook, e-book, and physical book formats.

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John Curran joins Caroline to read Christie’s third novel, her first (sort of?) to appear as a green penguin.

My new book, A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria, is out now. To find out more and get your copy, visit my website carolinecrampton.com/abodymadeofglass.

A full list of titles in the Penguin series can be found at penguinfirsteditions.com.

No major plot spoilers until you hear Caroline say we are "entering the spoiler zone", at 25:44. After that, expect full spoilers.

Mentioned in this episode: — Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie — Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks by John Curran — Murder in the Making by John Curran — The Big Four by Agatha Christie — Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie — The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie — The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie — The Clocks by Agatha Christie — Third Girl by Agatha Christie — Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie — Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie — An Autobiography by Agatha Christie — Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie — Peril at End House by Agatha Christie — And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie — Crooked House by Agatha Christie — Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie — The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie — Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie — The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie — The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux — The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green — Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie — Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie — Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie — The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie — Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie — Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie — "How Does Your Garden Grow?" by Agatha Christie, collected in Poirot's Early Cases — "The Cornish Mystery" by Agatha Christie, collected in The Under Dog and Other Stories — The Hollow by Agatha Christie — The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L Sayers — The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett — A Body Made of Glass by Caroline Crampton

Related Shedunnit episodes: — The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Green Penguin Book Club 1, Ad Free) — Death Under Par (Ad Free) — Agatha the Adventuress (Ad Free)

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