Shedunnit Episodes Episode guide
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Notes & Queries
There’s always more to say about detective fiction.
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Notable Trials
How did a legal history series become so well known even Lord Peter Wimsey owned a set?
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Ngaio Marsh Goes Home
WW2 forced this queen of crime to become better acquainted with her homeland.
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Mysterious Knitting
How to weave the perfect murder mystery plot.
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My First Green Penguin
We’ve got puffins, peacocks and penguins galore!
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Murder-on-Sea
Murder does like to be beside the seaside.
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Murder Isn't Easy
How much did Agatha Christie really know about dead bodies?
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Murder in the Library
There’s something sinister in the stacks.
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Murder in a Heatwave
When the temperature rises, don't lose your cool.
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Murder at the Bookshop
Death lurks among the shelves — in crime fiction, that is.
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Mr Fortune, Please
Dolores Gordon-Smith joins Caroline to read this short story collection by H.C. Bailey.
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Miss Marple, Spinster Sleuth
A feminist take on the gossiping busybody of St Mary Mead.
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Meet The Coles
What happens when a couple of socialists decide to write mysteries?
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Mary Westmacott
Sometimes, Agatha Christie didn’t want to be Agatha Christie.
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Margery Allingham Waits For The Invasion
For Albert Campion's creator, WW2 was her salvation.
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Lucy, Anthony and Anne
The crime fiction of Lucy Beatrice Malleson deserves to be better known.
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Looking East
Expanding the horizons of golden age detective fiction.
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Let It Snow
Snow is a very powerful tool for a detective novelist.
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Lady Chatterley vs Miss Marple
Are Agatha Christie’s stories as chaste as they seem?
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Knock Knock
Wouldn’t sleuthing be so much easier if the dead could speak to the living?
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Josephine Tey's Golden Age
WW2 made this Scottish writer want to write mysteries again.
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Is Agatha Christie A Good Writer?
Her plots are second to none. But is the Queen of Crime a true literary great?
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Introducing... Weird in the Wade
Weird in the Wade brings you true tales that are weird, wonderful and a little off kilter
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Introducing... The Allusionist
Caroline Crampton introduces The Allusionist, hosted by Helen Zaltzman.
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Instrument of Death
Beware the pipe organ.
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In the Dentist's Chair
Open wide! What could possibly go wrong?
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Howdunnit
Invert everything you think you know about murder mysteries.
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Happily Ever After
What would Peter Wimsey be without Harriet Vane?
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Halloween
A murder mystery can be spooky, too.
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Golden Age Inspiration
How do you write a 1920s style detective novel that's set in the 2020s?