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Anne Bedingfield, Emily Trefusis, Lucy Eyelesbarrow: why is it that Agatha Christie’s adventurous, highly competent young women never get to become recurring sleuths?

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Books and sources:

—Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks by John Curran

—The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie  by Charles Osborne

—An Autobiography  by Agatha Christie

—The Secret Adversary (1922) by Agatha Christie

—The Man in the Brown Suit (1924) by Agatha Christie

—The Sittaford Mystery (1931) by Agatha Christie

—The Secret of Chimneys (1925) by Agatha Christie

—The Seven Dials Mystery (1929) by Agatha Christie

—The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928) by Agatha Christie

—Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1934) by Agatha Christie

—They Came to Baghdad (1951) by Agatha Christie

—4.50 From Paddington (1957) by Agatha Christie

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How did a legal history series become so well known that even Lord Peter Wimsey owned a set?

Find links to all the books and sources mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/notabletrials.

Special thanks today to my guest Dr Victoria Stewart. You can follow her on Twitter @verbivorial and order her book Crime Writing in Interwar Britain: Fact and Fiction in the Golden Age here.

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Books and sources:

—Strong Poison (1930) by Dorothy L. Sayers

—A Pin To See The Peep Show  (1934) by F Tennyson Jesse

—Portrait of Fryn: Biography of F.Tennyson Jesse (1984) by Joanna Colenbrander

—The Anatomy of Murder (1936) by The Detection Club

—The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929) by Anthony Berkeley

—Malice Aforethought (1931) by Francis Iles

—"Decline of the English Murder" (1946) by George Orwell

—Death at the Opera (1934) by Gladys Mitchell

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One chilly night in November 1912, a group of young women gathered together to share their writing with each other. From that meeting, we got Peter Wimsey, Harriet Vane, and so much more besides.

Find links to all the books and sources mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/mas.

Special thanks today to my guest Mo Moulton, you can follow them on Twitter @hammock_tussock and order their book The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers And Her Oxford Circle Remade The World For Women at Amazon, Waterstones, Hive or your local independent bookshop.

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Books and sources:

—Mutual Admiration Society by Mo Moulton

—Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Live and Soul by Barbara Reynolds

—Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers

—Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers

—Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

—Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers

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The detective’s sidekick is a fundamental building block of the classic whodunnit. But they don’t often get full credit for the vital role they play in solving mysteries. Until now, that is.

Find links to all the books and sources mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/sidekicks.

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Books and sources:

—A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie

—The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

—The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

—The Detective As Reader: Narrativity And Reading Concepts In Detective Fiction by Peter Hühn

—Closure in Detective Fiction by Eyal Segal

—The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne

—The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

—The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

—Mystery Mile by Margery Allingham

—Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers

—The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie

—Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers

—Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers

—Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie

—Mrs McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie

—Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie

—Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie

—Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

—Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers

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There’s something so linear and definite about a train journey — it can only take you from A to B, with no possible deviations. Except when murder intervenes, and throws everything off the rails.

Find links to all the books mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/offtherails.

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Books and sources:

—The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

—"The Fallow Fields of Fiction" by Arnold Bennett in The Author's Craft: And Other Critical Writings of Arnold Bennett

—The Edwardian Detective: 1901-15 by Joseph A Kestner

—Thrilling Stories of the Railway by V.L. Whitechurch

—The Cask by Freeman Wills Crofts

—Bloody Murder by Julian Symons

—Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-19 by Curtis Evans

—"A Mystery of the Underground" by John Oxenham, collected in Capital Crimes: London Mysteries

—4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie

—The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie

—The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie

—Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

—An Autobiography by Agatha Christie

—The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

—Stamboul Train by Graham Greene

—Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

—The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White

—The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

—The Railway Detective by Edward Marston

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Wouldn’t sleuthing be so much easier if the dead could speak to the living?

Find links to all the books mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/knockknock.

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Books and sources in order of appearance:

—Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers

—Peril at End House by Agatha Christie

—Murder Most Unladylike by Robin Stevens

—The Plague Court Murders by John Dickson Carr

—When Last I Died by Gladys Mitchell

—The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie

—Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie

—"The Last Seance" in The Hound of Death by Agatha Christie

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Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. But three times? Three women dead in identical circumstances is highly suspicious.

Find links to all the books mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/bridesinthebath.

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Books and sources in order of appearance:

—The Magnificent Spilsbury and the Brides in the Bath by Jane Robins

—Notable British Trials: George Joseph Smith

—British Newspaper Archive

—Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie

—Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers

—Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers

—A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie

—The Bath Mysteries by E.R. Punshon

—"Three Is A Lucky Number" in The Allingham Casebook by Margery Allingham

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Today, we have the final episode in my summer break guest series: 'Golden Age Detective Fiction' from Words To That Effect by Conor Reid. It first appeared on his feed in May 2019, and if you listen very closely you might recognise his interviewee.

Find Words To That Effect at wttepodcast.com and in all good podcast apps. For the full shownotes and credits of this episode, see wttepodcast.com/golden.

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Today on my summer break guest series, we have Helen Zaltzman of The Allusionist again (along with my husband Guy Cuthbertson) talking about the books we read to feel better when we're ill — plenty of detective fiction, of course. This episode first appeared on Helen's podcast in August 2018.

Find The Allusionist at theallusionist.org and in all good podcast apps. Find the full shownotes, credits and transcript of this episode at theallusionist.org/convalescence

I've got one more guest episode coming up for you in August, and then I'll be back with a new Shedunnit on 4 September.

In the meantime, you can find me chilling out with a detective novel in the Shedunnit book club forum, available to paying supporters of the podcast through shedunnitshow.com/membership.

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I'm taking a summer break from making the podcast, but I've roped in some friends to keep you entertained while I'm gone. Today, we have Helen Zaltzman of The Allusionist, with three pieces about alter egos in an episode that first appeared on her show in April 2019. Keep your ears peeled until the last act, because you might just recognise her interviewee.

Find The Allusionist at theallusionist.org and in all good podcast apps. Find the full shownotes, credits and transcript of this episode at theallusionist.org/alter-ego.

I've got two more guest episodes coming up for you in August, and then I'll be back with a new Shedunnit on 4 September.

In the meantime, you can find me chilling out with a detective novel in the Shedunnit book club forum, available to paying supporters of the podcast through shedunnitshow.com/membership.

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