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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The Man in the Dark (Green Penguin Book Club 10)
Golden age expert Kate Jackson joins Caroline to read John Ferguson’s intriguing “Ealing mystery”.
No major plot spoilers until you hear Caroline say we are "entering the spoiler zone", at 15:33. 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 Trent's Last Case by E.C. Bentley.
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Books mentioned in this episode:— The Man in the Dark by John Ferguson— Stealthy Terror by John Ferguson— Death of Mr Dodsley by John Ferguson— Night in Glengyle by John Ferguson— Death Comes to Perigord by John Ferguson— The Pocket Detective by Kate Jackson— How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel by Kate Jackson— The Grouse Moor Mystery by John Ferguson— London Particular by Christianna Brand— The Port of London Murders by Josephine Bell— QED by Lynn Brock— Don't Open the Door by Anthony Gilbert— Murder In Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie— The Woman in Red by Anthony Gilbert— Murder Isn't Easy by Richard Hull— Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie— The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L Sayers— The White Cottage Mystery by Margery Allingham— The Mystery of the Peacock's Eye by Brian Flynn— The Murder of Mrs Davenport by Anthony Gilbert— Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles— The Havering Plot by Richard Keverne— Matorni's Vineyard by E. Phillips Oppenheim— The Professor's Poison by Neil Gordon— The Emerald Tiger by Edgar Jepson— The Fatal Kiss Mystery by Rufus King— Mystery at Lynden Sands by JJ Connington— Deep Lake Mystery by Carolyn Wells— The Factory on the Cliff by A.G. Macdonell— Trent's Last Case by E.C. Bentley
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