Moira Redmond joins Caroline to consider a surprising medical mystery from 1931.

No major plot spoilers until you hear Caroline say we are "entering the spoiler zone", at 19:39. 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 Raffles by E.W. Hornung.

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Reviews for The Missing Moneylender:

— Martin Edwards

— Beneath the Stains of Time

— Vintage Pop Fictions

Books mentioned in this episode:

— The Missing Moneylender by W. Stanley Sykes

— Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie

— The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

— The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers

— The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley

— The Ray of Doom by W. Stanley Sykes

— The Harness of Death by W. Stanley Sykes

— Essays on the First Hundred Years of Anaesthesia by W. Stanley Sykes

— "The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey" by Dorothy L. Sayers

— A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie

— "Before Insulin" by J.J. Connington

— The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace

— The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

— Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers

— Mr Fortune, Please by H.C. Bailey

— Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie

— Raffles by E.W. Hornung

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)

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