Fact meets fiction in the work of this unjustly overlooked writer.
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Books mentioned in this episode:— In Muffled Night by Dorothy Erskine Muir— Five to Five by Dorothy Erskine Muir— In Memory of Charles by Dorothy Erskine Muir— Lift the Curtain by Dorothy Erskine Muir— A History of Milan Under the Visconti by Dorothy Erskine Muir— Ask a Policeman by The Detection Club— Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L Sayers— Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie— Jumping Jenny by Anthony Berkeley— Seeing is Believing by John Dickson Carr— Heaven Knows Who by Christianna Brand— Trent's Last Case by E.C. Bentley— Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L Sayers— When Last I Died by Gladys Mitchell— A Pin to See the Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse— "Three is a Lucky Number" by Margery Allinhgam— The Trial of Oscar Slater by William Roughead— The Case of Oscar Slater by Arthur Conan Doyle— And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
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33:40
Ranking Christianna Brand
Caroline dives deep into Brand’s work to find her favourite novel.
Back in July of last year, I did an episode titled Christianna Brand's Impossible Crimes. During the research and preparation for that episode, I read quite a few Brand novels. Even though I haven't read every single work she published, I hope you enjoy this ranking of 15 books from Christianna Brand's canon.
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Christianna Brand novels mentioned, in alphabetical order:
— Alas, for Her That Met Me!
— The Brides of Aberdar
— Cat and Mouse
— Court of Foxes
— Death in High Heels
— Death of Jezebel
— Green for Danger
— Heads You Lose
— The Honey Harlot
— London Particular
— A Ring of Roses
— The Rose in Darkness
— The Three Cornered Halo
— Tour de Force
— Suddenly at His Residence
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23:36
Raffles (Green Penguin Book Club 8)
Darryl Jones joins Caroline to discuss the first collection of Raffles stories.
No major plot spoilers until you hear Caroline say we are "entering the spoiler zone", at 10:30. 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 The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace.
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Books mentioned in this episode:
— Raffles by E.W. Hornung
— The Mysterious Affair At Styles by Agatha Christie
— No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase
— The Final Problem by Arthur Conan Doyle
— The Hound of Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
— The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
— The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
— The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
— The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
— The Black Mask by E.W. Hornung
— Fiction and the Reading Public by Q.D. Leavis
— King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
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)
— The Missing Moneylender (Green Penguin Book Club 7)
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40:24
Oxford vs Cambridge
Why do these two historic university cities appear in so many murder mysteries?
Books mentioned in this episode:
— The Masters by C.P. Snow
— Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
— Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
— Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
— Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
— The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin
— The Cambridge Murders by Dilwyn Rees
— Death at the President’s Lodging by Michael Innes
— An Oxford Tragedy by J.C. Masterman (£825.00)
— Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay
— Murder at Cambridge by Q Patrick
— Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham
— The Incredible Crime by Lois Austen-Leigh
— Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter
— Trick of the Dark by Val McDermid
— Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
— Cambridge Blue by Alison Bruce
— Fall of Angels by Barbara Cleverly
— Invitation to Die by Barbara Cleverly
— James Runcie's Granchester stories
— Rory Clement's Tom Wilde series
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25:28
The Mystery Short Story
A consideration of crime fiction’s more compact incarnation.
Please be aware that there are spoilers in this episode for the two stories discussed here in detail: "Traitor's Hands" by Agatha Christie and "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell.
Books mentioned in this episode:
— Memories and Adventures by Arthur Conan Doyle
— The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
— A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
— "A Scandal in Bohemia" by Arthur Conan Doyle, collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
— How to Write a Mystery: a Handbook from Mystery Writers of America, edited by Lee Child with Laurie R. King
— The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
— “The Tuesday Night Club" by Agatha Christie, collected in The Thirteen Problems
— Mr. Fortune, Please by H. C. Bailey
— "Traitor's Hands" by Agatha Christie, collected in The Hound of Death
— "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell, collected in In the Shadow of Agatha Christie
— Marple: Twelve New Mysteries
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