What if everything we thought about murder mysteries was wrong?
Thanks to my guest, Benedict Morrison. Among his many publications, you can read him on Agatha Christie's theatrical work in the Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie.
Mentioned in this episode:
— The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie
— A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie
— The “Queer Clues” episode of Shedunnit
— Towards Zero by Agatha Christie
— The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie
— Suddenly At His Residence aka The Crooked Wreath by Christianna Brand
— The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
— Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie
— Queering Agatha Christie by J.C. Bernthal
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Queering The Golden Age

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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.
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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 25:52. 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)
— Death Under Par
— Agatha the Adventuress
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The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie (Green Penguin Book Club 2)

A portrait of a writer via her addresses.
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.
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Mentioned in this episode:
— The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie
— The Hollow by Agatha Christie
— Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie
— The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
— The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
— After the Funeral by Agatha Christie
— The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie
— Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie
— Murder in the Mews by Agatha Christie
— The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
— The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
— Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
— Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
Sources consulted:
— Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks edited by John Curran
— Agatha Christie: A Biography by Janet Morgan
— Agatha Christie: An English Mystery by Laura Thompson
— Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley
Shedunnit episodes referenced:
— At Home with Agatha Christie
— Agatha The Adventuress
— Agatha's Archaeologists
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There are no spoilers in this episode.
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Agatha Christie's Many Houses

Meet the hypochondriacs of golden age detective fiction.
My new book, A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria, is out now in the UK and published on 24th April in North America. To find out more and get your copy, visit my website carolinecrampton.com/abodymadeofglass.
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There are some minor spoilers in this episode — no solutions to whodunnits totally revealed, but some plot details discussed. If you want to avoiding knowing such details about something that you're reading or plan to read, please consult the list of books and stories in the episode description before proceeding.
Mentioned in this episode:
— "The Case of the Perfect Maid" by Agatha Christie, collected in Miss Marple's Final Cases
— N or M? by Agatha Christie
— The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
— Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie
— Green for Danger by Christianna Brand
— Black Plumes by Margery Allingham
— "The Blue Geranium" by Agatha Christie, collected in The Thirteen Problems
— The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie
— Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie
— The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie
— Fear for Miss Betony by Dorothy Bowers
— A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie
— 4.50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie
— Family Matters by Anthony Rolls
— “They Don’t Wear Labels” by E.M. Delafield, collected in Capital Crimes
— Below Suspicion by John Dickson Carr
— Blue Murder by Harriet Rutland
— Grave Mistake by Ngaio Marsh
— Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham
— Poison in the Garden Suburb by G.D.H. and Margaret Cole
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You Probably Imagined It!

A scientific murder mystery.
My new book, A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria, is published in April. To find out more and register for the exclusive pre-order bonus material, visit my website carolinecrampton.com.
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Mentioned in this episode:
— "The Tea Leaf" by Robert Eustace and Edgar Jepson
Related Shedunnit Episodes:
— Who Was Robert Eustace?
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The Tea Leaf

The crime fiction of Lucy Beatrice Malleson deserves to be better known.
My new book, A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria, is published in April. To find out more and register for the exclusive pre-order bonus material, visit my website carolinecrampton.com.
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Mentioned in this episode:
— Three-A-Penny by Lucy Malleson
— Cat and the Canary by John Willard
— The Man Who Was London by J. Kilmeny Keith
— “The Lay of the Last Minstrel” by Walter Scott
— Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
— The Tragedy at Freyne by Anthony Gilbert
— The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson
— Death at Four Corners by Anthony Gilbert
— An Old Lady Dies by Anthony Gilbert
— The Mystery of the Open Window by Anthony Gilbert
— The Night in the Fog by Anthony Gilbert
— Portrait of a Murderer by Anne Meredith
— Death in Fancy Dress by Anthony Gilbert
— The Man in Button Boots by Anthony Gilbert
— Courtier to Death by Anthony Gilbert
— Murder by Experts by Anthony Gilbert
— A Nice Little Killing by Anthony Gilbert
— Death Wears a Mask by Anthony Gilbert
— Death in the Wrong Room by Anthony Gilbert
— The Vanishing Corpse by Anthony Gilbert
— The Woman in Red by Anthony Gilbert
— Lady Killer by Anthony Gilbert
— Death Takes A Wife by Anthony Gilbert
— The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
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This episode is free of spoilers.
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Queering The Golden Age

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