Moira Redmond joins Caroline to consider a surprising medical mystery from 1931.
No major plot spoilers until you hear Caroline say we are "entering the spoiler zone", at 19:39. 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 Raffles by E.W. Hornung.
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Reviews for The Missing Moneylender:
— Martin Edwards
— Beneath the Stains of Time
— Vintage Pop Fictions
Books mentioned in this episode:
— The Missing Moneylender by W. Stanley Sykes
— Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
— The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
— The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers
— The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley
— The Ray of Doom by W. Stanley Sykes
— The Harness of Death by W. Stanley Sykes
— Essays on the First Hundred Years of Anaesthesia by W. Stanley Sykes
— "The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey" by Dorothy L. Sayers
— A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
— "Before Insulin" by J.J. Connington
— The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace
— The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
— Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
— Mr Fortune, Please by H.C. Bailey
— Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie
— Raffles by E.W. Hornung
Past Shedunnit Green Penguin episodes:
— 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)
— Mr Fortune, Please (Green Penguin Book Club 4)
— The Poisoned Chocolates Case (Green Penguin Book Club 5)
— The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Green Penguin Book Club 6)
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