The golden age of detective fiction was obsessed with identity. The reason why? An extremely melodramatic Victorian legal case involving shipwreck, Shetland ponies and a tangled aristocratic inheritance.

Please be aware that there may be spoilers for the following books in this episode.

Books referenced:

— The Claimant by Michael Gilbert

— Death in Captivity by Michael Gilbert

— Smallbone Deceased by Michael Gilbert

— The Murder at Road Hill House episode with Robin Stevens

— The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale

— Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie

— Dead Man’s Folly by Agatha Christie

— The Nine Wrong Answers by John Dickson Carr

— The Belting Inheritance by Julian Symons

— Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey

— The Tichborne Romance by Franklin Lushington

— The Tichborne Claimant by Douglas Woodruff

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