For this instalment of the book club, host Rebecca Thandi Norman is joined by David Webb Jewels's Head of Archive and Brand Heritage Levi Higgs to discuss The Mystery of the Blue Train. Levi is a jewelry expert, decorative arts aficionado, and mystery-lover, but he hasn't read much Christie...until now! The two discuss jewelry as a narrative device in mysteries, what works about the book (and what doesn't), and whether or not the regular person on the street would know a famous diamond if it smacked them in the face.

Follow Levi Higgs on Instagram here:

@levi_higgs

Mentioned in this episode:

Simon Teakle:

https://www.simonteakle.com/jewelry

Larkspur & Hawke:

https://larkspurandhawk.com/collections/all-jewelry

Art of the Jewel Instagram account:

https://www.instagram.com/artofthejewel/?hl=en

Wartski Instagram account:

https://www.instagram.com/wartski1865/

Jewels: A Secret History by Victoria Finlay:

https://bookshop.org/a/87919/9780345466952

Read The Mystery of the Blue Train:

https://bookshop.org/a/87919/9780593685365

Next episode we're reading Crooked House:

https://bookshop.org/a/87919/9780062073532

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