Get a Clue, Dad!
A podcast about Middle Grade mystery fiction. Eleven year old MJ and her mystery-loving father, Aidan, talk about mystery novels aimed at tween readers. Each episode begins with a spoiler-free discussion before delving deeper into spoilers in its second half. Bonus short video content, School for Sleuths, presents short discussions of concepts in mystery fiction, drawing on elements of books we have recently discussed.
Episodes
Get a Clue, Dad! is a podcast where a tween and her dad discuss mystery novels aimed at middle grade readers. In episode five, MJ and her dad, Aidan, discuss Jolly Foul Play by Robin Stevens.
Jolly Foul Play is the fourth novel in the Wells and Wong mystery series. Set in the 1930s, this story takes the characters back to Deepdean School. The new head girl is found murdered during the school's Guy Fawkes Night fireworks display. The...
Get a Clue, Dad! is a podcast where a tween and her dad discuss mystery novels aimed at middle grade readers. In episode four, MJ and her dad, Aidan, discuss Belly Up by Stuart Gibbs.
Belly Up is the first novel in the Fun Jungle mystery series. The book takes place at an attraction that is part safari, part amusement park. When "Teddy" learns that Fun Jungle's ornery hippopotamus, Henry, has been murdered he decides to investigate....
Aidan from Mysteries Ahoy! briefly explains what a locked room mystery is and what its distinctive elements are.
Books for adults referenced in this episode:
The Black Spectacles by John Dickson Carr
The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (a short story in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
Books for middle grade readers referenced in this episode:
The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat by Enid Blyton
First Class Murd...
Get a Clue, Dad! is a podcast where a tween and her dad discuss mystery novels aimed at middle grade readers. In episode three, MJ and her dad, Aidan, discuss First Class Murder by Robin Stevens.
First Class Murder is the third novel in the Wells and Wong mystery series. Set in the 1930s, this story sees our young sleuths traveling on the famous Orient Express with Hazel's father. When they hear news of a foreign spy aboard, they de...
Aidan from Mysteries Ahoy! briefly explains what a closed circle mystery is and what its distinctive elements are.
Books for adults referenced in this episode:
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie
Books for middle grade readers referenced in this episode:
Murder is Bad Manners by Robin Stevens
Poison is Not Polite by Robin Stevens
Blog posts referenced in this episode:
Get a Clue, Dad! is a podcast where a tween and her dad discuss mystery novels aimed at middle grade readers. In episode two, MJ and her dad, Aidan, discuss Poison is not Polite (known in the UK as Arsenic for Tea) by Robin Stevens.
Poison is Not Polite is the second novel in the Wells and Wong mystery series. Set in the 1930s, this story sees our young sleuths and several school chums spending their holidays at Daisy's family home ...
Aidan briefly explains what a historical mystery is, using a few examples of books aimed at adult and middle grade readers.
Books for adults referenced in this episode:
The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie (used as an example of an older book that is not a historical mystery)
Death Comes at the End by Agatha Christie
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
Death in Delft by Graham Brack
Books for middle grade readers referenced in this ep...
Get a Clue, Dad! is a podcast where a tween and her dad discuss mystery novels aimed at middle grade readers. In episode one, MJ and her dad, Aidan, discuss Murder is Bad Manners (known in the UK as Murder Most Unladylike) by Robin Stevens.
Murder is Bad Manners is the first novel in Stevens' Wells and Wong mystery series, set in the mid-1930s. Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong have formed a Detective Society at their school, but their cas...
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