
269 - Big Hot C'mon
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
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The Theory of Spontaneous Combustion Continues for Another Century
The theory of spontaneous combustion doesn't really hit mainstream until the 19th century. Charles Dickens publishes a novel called Bleak House and in the novel, right? Dickens kills off alcoholic character crook with spontaneous combustion. So it's like taking current events and making them into your book. There's a wonderful dramatization of Bleak House that everyone's best friend, Jillian Anderson is in. I believe you can stream it on a Brit box or a corn promo code murder.
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