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One chilly night in November 1912, a group of young women gathered together to share their writing with each other. From that meeting, we got Peter Wimsey, Harriet Vane, and so much more besides.Find links to all the books and sources mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/mas.Special thanks today to my guest Mo Moulton, you can follow them on Twitter @hammock_tussock and order their book The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers And Her Oxford Circle Remade The World For Women at Amazon, Waterstones, Hive or your local independent bookshop.Become a member of the Shedunnit book club and get bonus audio, listen to ad free episodes and join a book-loving community at shedunnitshow.com/bookclub.Books and sources:—Mutual Admiration Society by Mo Moulton—Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Live and Soul by Barbara Reynolds—Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers—Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers—Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers—Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. SayersTo be the first to know about future developments with the podcast, sign up for the newsletter at shedunnitshow.com/newsletter.The podcast is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram as @ShedunnitShow, and you can find it in all major podcast apps. Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the next episode. Click here to do that now in your app of choice.Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/mastranscript.Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The detective’s sidekick is a fundamental building block of the classic whodunnit. But they don’t often get full credit for the vital role they play in solving mysteries. Until now, that is.Find links to all the books and sources mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/sidekicks.Become a member of the Shedunnit book club and get bonus audio, listen to ad free episodes and join a book-loving community at shedunnitshow.com/bookclub.Books and sources:—A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie—The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle—The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe—The Detective As Reader: Narrativity And Reading Concepts In Detective Fiction by Peter Hühn—Closure in Detective Fiction by Eyal Segal—The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne—The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie—The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie—Mystery Mile by Margery Allingham—Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers—The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie—Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers—Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers—Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie—Mrs McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie—Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie—Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie—Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers—Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. SayersTo be the first to know about future developments with the podcast, sign up for the newsletter at shedunnitshow.com/newsletter.The podcast is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram as @ShedunnitShow, and you can find it in all major podcast apps. Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the next episode. Click here to do that now in your app of choice.Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/sidekickstranscript.Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There’s something so linear and definite about a train journey — it can only take you from A to B, with no possible deviations. Except when murder intervenes, and throws everything off the rails.Find links to all the books mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/offtherails.Become a member of the Shedunnit book club and get bonus audio, listen to ad free episodes and join a book-loving community at shedunnitshow.com/membership.Books and sources:—The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle—"The Fallow Fields of Fiction" by Arnold Bennett in The Author's Craft: And Other Critical Writings of Arnold Bennett—The Edwardian Detective: 1901-15 by Joseph A Kestner—Thrilling Stories of the Railway by V.L. Whitechurch—The Cask by Freeman Wills Crofts—Bloody Murder by Julian Symons—Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-19 by Curtis Evans—"A Mystery of the Underground" by John Oxenham, collected in Capital Crimes: London Mysteries—4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie—The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie—The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie—Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie—An Autobiography by Agatha Christie—The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan—Stamboul Train by Graham Greene—Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith—The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White—The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins—The Railway Detective by Edward MarstonTo be the first to know about future developments with the podcast, sign up for the newsletter at shedunnitshow.com/newsletter.The podcast is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram as @ShedunnitShow, and you can find it in all major podcast apps. Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the next episode. Click here to do that now in your app of choice.Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/offtherailstranscript.Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wouldn’t sleuthing be so much easier if the dead could speak to the living?Find links to all the books mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/knockknock.Become a member of the Shedunnit book club and get bonus audio, listen to ad free episodes and join a book-loving community at shedunnitshow.com/membership.Books and sources in order of appearance:—Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers—Peril at End House by Agatha Christie—Murder Most Unladylike by Robin Stevens—The Plague Court Murders by John Dickson Carr—When Last I Died by Gladys Mitchell—The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie—Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie—"The Last Seance" in The Hound of Death by Agatha ChristieTo be the first to know about future developments with the podcast, sign up for the newsletter at shedunnitshow.com/newsletter.The podcast is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram as @ShedunnitShow, and you can find it in all major podcast apps. Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the next episode. Click here to do that now in your app of choice.Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/knockknocktranscript.Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. But three times? Three women dead in identical circumstances is highly suspicious. Find links to all the books mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/bridesinthebath.Become a member of the Shedunnit book club and get bonus audio, listen to ad free episodes and join a book-loving community at shedunnitshow.com/membership.Books and sources in order of appearance:—The Magnificent Spilsbury and the Brides in the Bath by Jane Robins—Notable British Trials: George Joseph Smith—British Newspaper Archive—Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie—Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers—Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers—A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie—The Bath Mysteries by E.R. Punshon—"Three Is A Lucky Number" in The Allingham Casebook by Margery AllinghamTo be the first to know about future developments with the podcast, sign up for the newsletter at shedunnitshow.com/newsletter.The podcast is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram as @ShedunnitShow, and you can find it in all major podcast apps. Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the next episode. Click here to do that now in your app of choice.Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/bridesinthebathtranscript.Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, we have the final episode in my summer break guest series: 'Golden Age Detective Fiction' from Words To That Effect by Conor Reid. It first appeared on his feed in May 2019, and if you listen very closely you might recognise his interviewee.Find Words To That Effect at wttepodcast.com and in all good podcast apps. For the full shownotes and credits of this episode, see wttepodcast.com/golden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on my summer break guest series, we have Helen Zaltzman of The Allusionist again (along with my husband Guy Cuthbertson) talking about the books we read to feel better when we're ill — plenty of detective fiction, of course. This episode first appeared on Helen's podcast in August 2018.Find The Allusionist at theallusionist.org and in all good podcast apps. Find the full shownotes, credits and transcript of this episode at theallusionist.org/convalescenceI've got one more guest episode coming up for you in August, and then I'll be back with a new Shedunnit on 4 September.In the meantime, you can find me chilling out with a detective novel in the Shedunnit book club forum, available to paying supporters of the podcast through shedunnitshow.com/membership. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm taking a summer break from making the podcast, but I've roped in some friends to keep you entertained while I'm gone. Today, we have Helen Zaltzman of The Allusionist, with three pieces about alter egos in an episode that first appeared on her show in April 2019. Keep your ears peeled until the last act, because you might just recognise her interviewee.Find The Allusionist at theallusionist.org and in all good podcast apps. Find the full shownotes, credits and transcript of this episode at theallusionist.org/alter-ego.I've got two more guest episodes coming up for you in August, and then I'll be back with a new Shedunnit on 4 September.In the meantime, you can find me chilling out with a detective novel in the Shedunnit book club forum, available to paying supporters of the podcast through shedunnitshow.com/membership. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meet Maud West, a real life lady detective from the golden age of detective fiction who lived a very colourful life — as well as sleuthing, she liked to dress up as Charlie Chaplin and once threatened to shoot a ghost. But who was she, really?Find links to all the books mentioned and more details about my guests at shedunnitshow.com/theladydetective.Become a member of the Shedunnit book club and get bonus audio, listen to ad free episodes and join a book-loving community at shedunnitshow.com/membership.Get a free audiobook via Audible at shedunnitshow.com/audibleGuest:—Susannah Stapleton, author of The Adventures of Maud West, Lady DetectiveBooks mentioned in order of appearance:—The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective by Susannah Stapleton—British Women in the Twentieth Century by Elsie M. Lang—Lady Molly of Scotland Yard by Baroness OrczyTo be the first to know about future developments with the podcast, sign up for the newsletter at shedunnitshow.com/newsletter.The podcast is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram as @ShedunnitShow, and you can find it in all major podcast apps. Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the next episode. Click here to do that now in your app of choice.Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/theladydetectivetranscript.Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

School is an enclosed world that breeds tension and suspicion and stress. No wonder it's such a perfect setting for a murder mystery.Find links to all the books mentioned and more details about my guests at shedunnitshow.com/backtoschool.Become a member of the Shedunnit book club and get bonus audio, listen to ad free episodes and join a book-loving community at shedunnitshow.com/membership.Contributors:—Moira Redmond, author of the Clothes in Books blog—Robin Stevens, author of the Murder Most Unladylike book seriesBooks mentioned in order of appearance:—The Governess, or The Little Female Academy by Sarah Fielding—Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë—David Copperfield by Charles Dickens—Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes—A Terrible Tomboy by Angela Brazil—The Naughtiest Girl in the School by Enid Blyton—The School at the Chalet by Elinor Brent-Dyer—Moira's blog about The Silent Three—First Term at Mallory Towers by Enid Blyton—The Clue in the Castle by Joyce Bevins Webb - Rare Book—A Question of Proof by Nicholas Blake—Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers—Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey—Cat Among The Pigeons by Agatha Christie—Quiet as a Nun by Antonia Fraser—The Secret Place by Tana French—Murder Most Unladylike by Robin Stevens—First Class Murder by Robin Stevens—Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieTo be the first to know about future developments with the podcast, sign up for the newsletter at shedunnitshow.com/newsletter.The podcast is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram as @ShedunnitShow, and you can find it in all major podcast apps. Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the next episode. Click here to do that now in your app of choice.Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/backtoschooltranscript.Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices