Australian mystery reading duo Flex and Herds join Caroline to look at this influential whodunnit.
No major plot spoilers until you hear Caroline say we are "entering the spoiler zone", at 12:24. 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 Rasp by Philip MacDonald.
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Books mentioned in this episode:— Trent's Last Case by E.C. Bentley— Trent's Own Case by E.C. Bentley— Trent Intervenes by E.C. Bentley— Biography for Beginners by E.C. Bentley— Blackstone Fell by Martin Edwards— Whose Body? by Dorothy L Sayers— The Three Taps by Ronald Knox— Broke Road by Matthew Spencer— The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino— Death of Jezebel by Christianna Brand— The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley— The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton— Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
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The Cluefinder
A literary device from the golden age of detective fiction is making a comeback.
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Books mentioned in this episode:— The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards— The Life of Crime by Martin Edwards— Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards— The Riverside Villas Murder by Kingsley Amis— Gallows Court by Martin Edwards— Mortmain Hall by Martin Edwards— Hemlock Bay by Martin Edwards— The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne— The GCHQ Puzzle Book— Obelists Fly High by C. Daly King— Murdle by G.T. Karber
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Rediscovering Miss Marple
Getting back in touch with the foremost citizen of St Mary Mead.
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Books mentioned in this episode:— The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie— The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie— The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie— The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie— Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks edited by John Curran— The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie— The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
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Murder at the Bookshop
Death lurks among the shelves — in crime fiction, that is.
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Books mentioned in this episode:— Death of Mr Dodsley by John Ferguson— Beginning With A Bash by Phoebe Atwood Taylor— Murder in the Bookshop by Carolyn Wells— Death in a Bookstore by Augusto De Angelis— Bodies in a Bookshop by R.T. Campbell— Recollections by Geoffrey Grigson
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Death On Paper
There’s a lot of fun to be had with an epistolary mystery.
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Books mentioned in this episode:— The Notting Hill Mystery by Charles Warren Adams— The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins— The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins— Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu— Dracula by Bram Stoker— S.S. Murder by Q Patrick— Death on the Down Beat by Sebastian Farr— The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace— Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers— The Beast Must Die by Nicholas Blake— The Second Shot by Anthony Berkeley— The Manuscript Murder by Lewis Robinson— The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie— The Man in the Dark by John Ferguson— The Maze by Philip Macdonald— The Rynox Mystery by Philip Macdonald— Burglars In Buck by G.D.H. and Margaret Cole— Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn— The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid— The Appeal by Janice Hallett— Cain's Jawbone
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