Shedunnit Episodes Episode guide
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The Detection Club
It started with dinner and ended with crime writers swearing an oath on a skull.
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The Decree Absolute
The fascinating history of divorce in detective fiction.
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The Death of the Country House
A most golden age murder.
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The Dark Side of True Crime
What if thinking and talking about real life murders was not good for us?
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The Crimes of Dorothy Erskine Muir
Fact meets fiction in the work of this unjustly overlooked writer.
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The Crime Clubs
Do secret societies have any place in murder mysteries?
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The Collectors
The perfect collection is never complete.
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The Cluefinder
A literary device from the golden age of detective fiction is making a comeback.
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The Challenge of Dorothy L. Sayers
Should detective fiction be easy reading?
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The Case of Georgette Heyer
Why aren’t her dozen detective novels better known?
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The Butler Did It
Snobbery and murder, all served up perfectly for you on a silver tray.
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The Box of Delights
Caroline and Guy discuss this beloved children's book by John Masefield.
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The Advertising Adventures of Dorothy L. Sayers
She created Lord Peter Wimsey — and also some excellent slogans about mustard.
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The A.A. Milne Mystery
Why didn’t the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh write more detective fiction?
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Swan Song
How do you say goodbye to a beloved detective?
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Spooky Sleuthing
The supernatural and the rational come together in the murder mystery.
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Shedunnit Recommends
What's in the true detective fiction fan's library?
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Rediscovering Miss Marple
Getting back in touch with the foremost citizen of St Mary Mead.
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Ranking Christianna Brand
Caroline dives deep into Brand’s work to find her favourite novel.
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Raffles (Green Penguin Book Club 8)
Darryl Jones joins Caroline to discuss the first collection of Raffles stories.
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Queering The Golden Age
What if everything we thought about murder mysteries was wrong?
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Policing The Detectives
Is it possible to write a whodunnit and leave out the police?
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Poison Pen
Nothing bad could possibly happen here, say the residents of the peaceful English village.
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Period Style
Murder mysteries: if you believe the clichés, they all happened in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Peace at Last
The day the First World War ended, 11 November 1918, marked the beginning of a new era.
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Oxford vs Cambridge
Why do these two historic university cities appear in so many murder mysteries?
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On The Thames
The River Thames has always had a dark side.
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On Gaudy Night
Caroline goes deep on Dorothy L. Sayers’ 1935 masterpiece.
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Off The Rails
When murder throws everything off the rails.
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Nurse Daniels
Her disappearance captivated the world.