The Servant Problem
How the interwar servant shortage changed detective fiction.
How the interwar servant shortage changed detective fiction.
Books mentioned in this episode:
— Mrs Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light
— The Psychology of the Servant Problem by Violet M. Firth
— Trent's Last Case by
— The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
— "The Invisible Man" by G.K. Chesterton
— Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie
— "Miss Marple Tells a Story" by Agatha Christie
— The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
— "The Case of the Perfect Maid" by Agatha Christie
— "The Dream" by Agatha Christie
— "Greenshaw's Folly" by Agatha Christie
— The Wintringham Mystery by Anthony Berkeley
— Why Shoot A Butler? by Georgette Heyer
— Frequent Hearses by Edmund Crispin
— The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers
— Who Killed the Curate? by Joan Coggin
— The Hollow by Agatha Christie
— A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
— Mrs McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie
— After the Funeral by Agatha Christie
— A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie
— 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
— Simisola by Ruth Rendell
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