The Butler Did It
Snobbery and murder, all served up perfectly for you on a silver tray.
Snobbery and murder, all served up perfectly for you on a silver tray.
NB: There are spoilers in this episode! Please check the list of books mentioned below and come back later if there are any titles there for which you don鈥檛 want to hear any major plot details. Consider yourself warned!
This archive episode of Shedunnit was first published on 28th October 2020.
Books and sources:
鈥擳he Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart
鈥擳he Door by Mary Roberts Rinehart
鈥�20 Rules for Writing Detective Stories by S.S. Van Dine
鈥斺�淭he Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual鈥� by Arthur Conan Doyle
鈥斺�淭he Strange Case of Mr Challoner鈥� by Herbert Jenkins
鈥擲omething Fishy or The Butler Did It by P.G. Wodehouse
鈥�"Why do we think the butler did it?" by Nate Pederson in the Guardian
鈥�"Should we be concerned by the limitless popularity of period dramas?" by Caroline Crampton in the New Humanist
鈥�"Historians, Social Scientists, Servants, and Domestic Workers: Fifty Years of Research on Domestic and Care Work", International Review of Social History, Volume 59, Issue 2, August 2014 , pp. 279-314
鈥擲nobbery with Violence by Colin Watson
鈥擠eath and the Dancing Footman by Ngaio Marsh
鈥擳he Mysterious Affair At Styles by Agatha Christie
鈥擶hose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
鈥擳hree Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie
鈥擝lack Coffee by Agatha Christie
鈥擳he Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
鈥擶hy Shoot a Butler? by Georgette Heyer
鈥擝usman鈥檚 Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers
鈥擜 Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
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