She is beloved worldwide for her crime writing. But what did she like to read?
Resources and articles mentioned in this episode:
— Jamie Bernthal on Arthur Conan Doyle
— Moira Redmond on Elizabeth Daly
— Martin Edwards on My Brother's Killer
— Gray Robert Brown on Muriel Spark
Books mentioned in this episode:
— Agatha Christie An Autobiography by Agatha Christie
— The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
— The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
— The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
— The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie
— Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
— Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers
— The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers
— Mr Fortune, Please by H.C. Bailey
— Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
— Unexpected Night by Elizabeth Daly
— The Missing Moneylender by W. Stanley Sykes
— The Clocks by Elizabeth Daly
— The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux
— My Brother's Killer by D.M. Devine
— The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carré
— The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie
— Endless Night by Agatha Christie
— Stamboul Train by Graham Greene
— The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
— The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
— A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
— The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie
— The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
— Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
— The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
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25:03
The Missing Moneylender (Green Penguin Book Club 7)
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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51:11
On Gaudy Night
Caroline goes deep on Dorothy L. Sayers’ 1935 masterpiece.
At 18:58, there is a brief mention of attempted suicide.
Books mentioned in this episode:
— Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers
— Whose Body? by Dorothy L Sayers
— Strong Poison by Dorothy L Sayers
— Have His Carcase by Dorothy L Sayers
— Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L Sayers
— Lord Peter Wimsey Investigates series by Jill Paton Walsh
Related Shedunnit episodes:
— The Advertising Adventures of Dorothy L. Sayers
— Dorothy L Sayers Solves Her Mystery
— The Challenge Of Dorothy L. Sayers
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38:55
Whodunnit Centenary: 1925
Reading the mysteries of the past 100 years.
Books mentioned in this episode:
— 1925: The Paddington Mystery by John Rhode
— 1935: Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers
— 1945: Coroner's Pidgin by Margery Allingham (also published as: Pearls Before Swine)
— 1955: Tour de Force by Christianna Brand
— 1965: At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie
— 1975: Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
— 1985: B is for Burglar by Sue Grafton
— 1995: The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid
— 2005: Still Life by Louise Penny
— 2015: The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
— 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
Related Shedunnit episodes:
— Whodunnit Centenary: 1924
— The Shedunnit Centenary
— A Century of Whodunnits
— A Second Century of Whodunnits
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27:14
Notes & Queries
There’s always more to say about detective fiction.
Books mentioned in this episode:
— The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
— The Secret Place by Tana French
— The Crozier Pharaohs by Gladys Mitchell
— Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie
— The Examiner by Janice Hallett
— The Appeal by Janice Hallett
— The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L Sayers and Robert Eustace
— Three-A-Penny by Lucy Beatrice Malleson
— Portrait of a Murderer by Portrait of a Murderer
— Death in Fancy Dress by Anthony Gilbert
— The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L Sayers
— The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
— The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
— The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
— Murder's A Swine by Nap Lombard
— The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin
— The Organ Speaks by E.C.R. Lorac
— Death in Dwelly Lane by Frank Vigor Morley
— Agatha Christie: Mistress of Mystery by Gordon C. Ramsey
— "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" by Arthur Conan Doyle
— His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle
— A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
— Hard Liver by Anthony Weymouth
— “Death Sits in the Dentist’s Chair” by Cornell Woolrich, collected in Darkness at Dawn: Early Suspense Classics
— Mr Fortune, Please by H.C. Bailey
— Black Land, White Land by H.C. Bailey
Shedunnit episodes mentioned in this episode:
— Whodunnit Centenary: 1924
— A Reading Life
— Lucy, Anthony, and Anne
— 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)
— Instrument of Death
— Edmund Crispin's Inside Jokes
— Death at the Speakeasy
— In The Dentist's Chair
— Mr Fortune, Please (Green Penguin Book Club 4)
— Mysterious Knitting
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