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Shedunnit Episodes

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    The Murder Mystery Hotline

    If you need a golden age detective fiction recommendation, we are at your service.

  2. The Murder At Road Hill House

    This sensational case from 1860 ignited a wave of detective fever.

  3. The Missing Moneylender by W. Stanley Sykes (Green Penguin Book Club 7)

    Moira Redmond joins Caroline to consider a surprising medical mystery from 1931.

  4. The Many Afterlives of Hercule Poirot

    "There aren鈥檛 many characters who are recognisable just from a silhouette. "

  5. The Man in the Dark (Green Penguin Book Club 10)

    Kate Jackson joins Caroline to read John Ferguson鈥檚 intriguing 鈥淓aling mystery鈥�.

  6. The Long Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe

    The grandfather of detective fiction still has a lot to teach us.

  7. The Lifelong Fan

    Ren茅e read her first detective novel in the 1930s. She hasn鈥檛 stopped since.

  8. The Lady Vanishes

    On 3 December 1926, Agatha Christie vanished.

  9. The Lady Detective

    Meet Maud West, a real life lady detective from the golden age of detective fiction.

  10. The Kidnap of Elizabeth Canning

    A dark story connects this 18th century abduction with a 20th century crime novel.

  11. The Honkaku Mysteries

    Exploring the thriving tradition of classic Japanese whodunnits.

  12. The Hay Poisoner

    All the best murder mysteries start with a scone laced with arsenic.

  13. The Green Penguin

    One visit to Agatha Christie changed everything.

  14. The Great Gladys

    A reptilian sleuth with a mellifluous voice, and a small amount of witchcraft.

  15. The Golden Age Autopsy

    Step inside the mortuary.

  16. The Four Just Men (Green Penguin Book Club 9)

    Tom Mead joins Caroline to read Edgar Wallace鈥檚 1905 thriller.

  17. The First Whodunnit

    What was the first murder mystery, really?

  18. The Evolution of Margery Allingham

    The parallel lives of a writer and her detective.

  19. The Elusive Agatha Christie

    How well do we really know the queen of crime?

  20. The Detective's Best Friend

    Join me for a long-awaited guided tour of the role that dogs play in detective fiction.

  21. The Detection Club

    It started with dinner and ended with crime writers swearing an oath on a skull.

  22. The Death of the Country House

    A most golden age murder.

  23. The Dark Side of True Crime

    What if thinking and talking about real life murders was not good for us?

  24. The Crimes of Dorothy Erskine Muir

    Fact meets fiction in the work of this unjustly overlooked writer.

  25. The Challenge of Dorothy L. Sayers

    Should detective fiction be easy reading?

  26. The Box of Delights

    Caroline and Guy discuss this beloved children's book by John Masefield.

  27. The Advertising Adventures of Dorothy L. Sayers

    She created Lord Peter Wimsey 鈥� and also some excellent slogans about mustard.

  28. The A.A. Milne Mystery

    Why didn鈥檛 the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh write more detective fiction?

  29. Swan Song

    How do you say goodbye to a beloved detective?

  30. Spooky Sleuthing

    The supernatural and the rational come together in the murder mystery.

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