What connects a notorious 1827 murder case with the Detection Club’s cosy Soho clubrooms?

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Mentioned or consulted in the making of this episode:

— The Red Barn, A Tale Founded On Fact by Robert Huish

— The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

— Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

— BBC News report of William Corder's cremation in 2004

— Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn, an anonymous play

— Maria Marten: The Murder in the Red Barn by Peter Haining

— William Corder and the Red Barn Murder: Journeys of the Criminal Body by Shane McCorristine

— The Mysterious Murder of Maria Marten by James Curtis

— The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders

— The Red Barn Mystery by Donald McCormick

— The case report in the Newgate Calendar

Related Shedunnit episodes:

— Florence Maybrick I & II

— The Murder At Road Hill House

— Crippen

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