Fact meets fiction in the work of this unjustly overlooked writer.

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Books mentioned in this episode:— ⁠In Muffled Night by Dorothy Erskine Muir⁠— ⁠Five to Five by Dorothy Erskine Muir⁠— ⁠In Memory of Charles by Dorothy Erskine Muir⁠— Lift the Curtain by Dorothy Erskine Muir— ⁠A History of Milan Under the Visconti by Dorothy Erskine Muir⁠— ⁠Ask a Policeman by The Detection Club⁠— ⁠Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L Sayers⁠— ⁠Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie⁠— ⁠Jumping Jenny by Anthony Berkeley⁠— Seeing is Believing by John Dickson Carr— Heaven Knows Who by Christianna Brand— ⁠Trent's Last Case by E.C. Bentley⁠— ⁠Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L Sayers⁠— ⁠When Last I Died by Gladys Mitchell⁠— ⁠A Pin to See the Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse⁠— "Three is a Lucky Number" by Margery Allinhgam— ⁠The Trial of Oscar Slater by William Roughead⁠— ⁠The Case of Oscar Slater by Arthur Conan Doyle⁠— ⁠And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie⁠

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