A Christie for Christmas

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The original golden age of detective fiction in the 1920s followed on from a devastating global pandemic. Is it any wonder, then, that we’ve read so much crime fiction in 2020? And why do we find murder mysteries a comforting choice for Christmas? This festive season if you’d like to support the podcast and buy a gift for a murder mystery loving friend at the same time, you can purchase a discounted gift subscription for the Shedunnit Book Club at shedunnitshow.com/giftoffer or until 17th December shop the restocked merchandise collection at shedunnitshow.com/shop. No major spoilers in this episode. However, there is some mention or discussion of the books listed below. Books and sources: —The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman —"The Golden Age" by Stephen Knight in The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction —The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie —Trent’s Last Case by E.C. Bentley —Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie —Forever England by Alison Light —"The Decline and Fall of the Detection Story" by W Somerset Maugham in The Vagrant Mood To 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/achristieforchristmastranscript. Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details. Download the mp3 of this episode here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Home doesn't mean the same for me as it was for you.
0:04.0	From Academy Award winner Emol Fennel.
0:06.0	Why don't you come home with me?
0:08.0	Come to Saltburn.
0:09.0	Critics are calling it deliriously enjoyable five stars.
0:13.0	Lots of people get lost in Saltburn.
0:16.0	And stylish and darkly comic.
0:18.0	Well, that's just giving me go spouts.
0:20.0	Mary Kiegan is a revelation.
0:23.0	I don't think I'll ever go home again.
0:25.0	Saltburn in Synemes November 17. Like a lot of people I've really struggled with reading this year.
0:38.0	Whereas once the words just seem to flow off the page and straight into my brain. Now a connection is broken somewhere.
0:47.0	I've been distracted and anxious, picking up books that I think will suit my mood, and then putting them down again after a few dozen pages because they don't immediately fix me.
0:58.0	This slowdown in my reading has bothered me a good deal.
1:02.0	Another item on the list of things that I worry about, but can't control.
1:06.8	There are a few books that I have still been able to get properly stuck into,
1:10.0	though, and almost all of them are who done it.
1:14.0	There's something uniquely comforting, I think, about the rhythms and patterns of a classic detective story
1:20.0	from the 1918 to 1939 period.
1:23.0	And those are the ones that I've gravitated towards in 2020.
1:27.0	And I'm not alone in this.
1:29.0	Booksellers have noticed even more Agatha Christie's flying off their shelves than usual.
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