There’s always more to say about detective fiction.
Books mentioned in this episode:
— The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
— The Secret Place by Tana French
— The Crozier Pharaohs by Gladys Mitchell
— Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie
— The Examiner by Janice Hallett
— The Appeal by Janice Hallett
— The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L Sayers and Robert Eustace
— Three-A-Penny by Lucy Beatrice Malleson
— Portrait of a Murderer by Portrait of a Murderer
— Death in Fancy Dress by Anthony Gilbert
— The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L Sayers
— The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
— The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
— The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
— Murder's A Swine by Nap Lombard
— The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin
— The Organ Speaks by E.C.R. Lorac
— Death in Dwelly Lane by Frank Vigor Morley
— Agatha Christie: Mistress of Mystery by Gordon C. Ramsey
— "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" by Arthur Conan Doyle
— His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle
— A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
— Hard Liver by Anthony Weymouth
— “Death Sits in the Dentist’s Chair” by Cornell Woolrich, collected in Darkness at Dawn: Early Suspense Classics
— Mr Fortune, Please by H.C. Bailey
— Black Land, White Land by H.C. Bailey
Shedunnit episodes mentioned in this episode:
— Whodunnit Centenary: 1924
— A Reading Life
— Lucy, Anthony, and Anne
— The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Green Penguin Book Club 1)
— The Murder on the Links (Green Penguin Book Club 2)
— The Thin Man (Green Penguin Book Club 3)
— Instrument of Death
— Edmund Crispin's Inside Jokes
— Death at the Speakeasy
— In The Dentist's Chair
— Mr Fortune, Please (Green Penguin Book Club 4)
— Mysterious Knitting
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