A murder mystery can be spooky, too.

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Books mentioned in this episode:
— Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie
— The Halloween Murders by John Newton Chance
— Wraiths and Changelings by Gladys Mitchell
— Surfeit of Lampreys by Ngaio Marsh
— The Crooked Hinge by John Dickson Carr
— The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie
— Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie
— The Spirit Murder Mystery by Robin Forsythe
— Rim of the Pit by Hake Talbot
— The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
— The Unicorn Murders by Carter Dickson
— He Who Whispers by John Dickson Carr
— The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr
— A Corpse at Camp Two by Glyn Carr
— Footsteps in the Dark by Georgette Heyer
— The Ghost It Was by Richard Hull
— Look to the Lady by Margery Allingham
— “The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb” by Agatha Christie, collected in Poirot Investigates
— And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

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How the interwar servant shortage changed detective fiction.

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Books mentioned in this episode:
— Mrs Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light
— The Psychology of the Servant Problem by Violet M Firth
— Trent's Last Case by EC Bentley
— The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
— "The Invisible Man" by G.K. Chesterton, collected in The Innocence of Father Brown
— Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie
— "Miss Marple Tells a Story" by Agatha Christie, collected in Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
— The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
— "The Case of the Perfect Maid" by Agatha Christie, collected in Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
— "The Dream" by Agatha Christie, collected in The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories
— "Greenshaw's Folly" by Agatha Christie, collected in Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
— The Wintringham Mystery by Anthony Berkeley
— Why Shoot A Butler? by Georgette Heyer
— Frequent Hearses by Edmund Crispin
— The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L Sayers
— Who Killed the Curate? by Joan Coggin
— The Hollow by Agatha Christie
— A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
— Mrs McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie
— After the Funeral by Agatha Christie
— A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie
— 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
— Simisola by Ruth Rendell

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Do secret societies have any place in murder mysteries?

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Books mentioned in this episode:
— "The Five Orange Pips" by Arthur Conan Doyle, collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
— The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill
— The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
— The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace
— Traitor's Purse by Margery Allingham
— The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley
— "The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba" by Dorothy L. Sayers, collected in Lord Peter Views the Body
— The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie
— The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie
— Destination Unknown by Agatha Christie
— Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie

Shedunnit episodes mentioned:
— The Four Just Men (Green Penguin Book Club 9)
— The Poisoned Chocolates Case (Green Penguin Book Club 5)

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Australian mystery reading duo Flex and Herds join Caroline to look at this influential whodunnit.

No major plot spoilers until you hear Caroline say we are "entering the spoiler zone", at 12:24. After that, expect full spoilers.

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Books mentioned in this episode:
— Trent's Last Case by E.C. Bentley
— Trent's Own Case by E.C. Bentley
— Trent Intervenes by E.C. Bentley
— Biography for Beginners by E.C. Bentley
— Blackstone Fell by Martin Edwards
— Whose Body? by Dorothy L Sayers
— The Three Taps by Ronald Knox
— Broke Road by Matthew Spencer
— The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
— Death of Jezebel by Christianna Brand
— The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley
— The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
— Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov

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A literary device from the golden age of detective fiction is making a comeback.

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Books mentioned in this episode:
— The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards
— The Life of Crime by Martin Edwards
— Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards
— The Riverside Villas Murder by Kingsley Amis
— Gallows Court by Martin Edwards
— Mortmain Hall by Martin Edwards
— Hemlock Bay by Martin Edwards
— The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne
— The GCHQ Puzzle Book
— Obelists Fly High by C. Daly King
— Murdle by G.T. Karber

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Getting back in touch with the foremost citizen of St Mary Mead.

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Books mentioned in this episode:
— The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
— The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie
— The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
— The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
— Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks edited by John Curran
— The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie
— The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie

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Death lurks among the shelves — in crime fiction, that is.

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Books mentioned in this episode:
— Death of Mr Dodsley by John Ferguson
— Beginning With A Bash by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
— Murder in the Bookshop by Carolyn Wells
— Death in a Bookstore by Augusto De Angelis
— Bodies in a Bookshop by R.T. Campbell
— Recollections by Geoffrey Grigson

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There’s a lot of fun to be had with an epistolary mystery.

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Books mentioned in this episode:
— The Notting Hill Mystery by Charles Warren Adams
— The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
— The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
— Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
— Dracula by Bram Stoker
— S.S. Murder by Q Patrick
— Death on the Down Beat by Sebastian Farr
— The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace
— Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers
— The Beast Must Die by Nicholas Blake
— The Second Shot by Anthony Berkeley
— The Manuscript Murder by Lewis Robinson
— The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
— The Man in the Dark by John Ferguson
— The Maze by Philip Macdonald
— The Rynox Mystery by Philip Macdonald
— Burglars In Buck by G.D.H. and Margaret Cole
— Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
— The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
— The Appeal by Janice Hallett
— Cain's Jawbone

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Golden age expert Kate Jackson joins Caroline to read John Ferguson’s intriguing “Ealing mystery”.

No major plot spoilers until you hear Caroline say we are "entering the spoiler zone", at 15:33. 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 Trent's Last Case by E.C. Bentley.

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Books mentioned in this episode:
— The Man in the Dark by John Ferguson
— Stealthy Terror by John Ferguson
— Death of Mr Dodsley by John Ferguson
— Night in Glengyle by John Ferguson
— Death Comes to Perigord by John Ferguson
— The Pocket Detective by Kate Jackson
— How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel by Kate Jackson
— The Grouse Moor Mystery by John Ferguson
— London Particular by Christianna Brand
— The Port of London Murders by Josephine Bell
— QED by Lynn Brock
— Don't Open the Door by Anthony Gilbert
— Murder In Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
— The Woman in Red by Anthony Gilbert
— Murder Isn't Easy by Richard Hull
— Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
— The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L Sayers
— The White Cottage Mystery by Margery Allingham
— The Mystery of the Peacock's Eye by Brian Flynn
— The Murder of Mrs Davenport by Anthony Gilbert
— Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles
— The Havering Plot by Richard Keverne
— Matorni's Vineyard by E. Phillips Oppenheim
— The Professor's Poison by Neil Gordon
— The Emerald Tiger by Edgar Jepson
— The Fatal Kiss Mystery by Rufus King
— Mystery at Lynden Sands by JJ Connington
— Deep Lake Mystery by Carolyn Wells
— The Factory on the Cliff by A.G. Macdonell
— Trent's Last Case by E.C. Bentley

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How crime writers turned pharmaceutical regulations into plot points.

My guest for this episode is Dr Kathryn Harkup. Her book V is for Venom: Agatha Christie’s Chemicals of Death is available now.

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Books mentioned in this episode:
— A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn Harkup
— The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
— Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
— The Wychford Poisoning Case by Anthony Berkeley
— Family Matters by Anthony Rolls

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