Darryl Jones joins Caroline to discuss the first collection of Raffles stories.

No major plot spoilers until you hear Caroline say we are "entering the spoiler zone", at 10:30. After that, expect full spoilers.

A full list of titles in the Penguin series can be found at penguinfirsteditions.com. The next book discussed in this series will be The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace.

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Books mentioned in this episode:

— Raffles by E.W. Hornung

— The Mysterious Affair At Styles by Agatha Christie

— No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase

— The Final Problem by Arthur Conan Doyle

— The Hound of Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

— The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

— The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

— The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

— The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

— The Black Mask by E.W. Hornung

— Fiction and the Reading Public by Q.D. Leavis

— King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard

Past Shedunnit Green Penguin episodes:

— The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Green Penguin Book Club 1)

— The Murder on the Links (Green Penguin Book Club 2)

— The Thin Man (Green Penguin Book Club 3)

— Mr Fortune, Please (Green Penguin Book Club 4)

— The Poisoned Chocolates Case (Green Penguin Book Club 5)

— The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Green Penguin Book Club 6)

— The Missing Moneylender (Green Penguin Book Club 7)

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