A Prize Mystery

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Could you beat the detective to the solution? This live episode of Shedunnit was recorded at the 2022 International Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay. Mentioned in this episode: — The Wintringham Mystery by Anthony Berkeley — The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie — The Mystery of Norman's Court by John Chancellor — The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie — The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie — Bleak House by Charles Dickens — The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie — The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace — Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie — The Clocks by Agatha Christie — The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle — Memories and Adventures by Arthur Conan Doyle — Murder in Rockwater by Margot Neville — Murder of Olympia by Margot Neville — Forever England by Alison Light — “The Decline and Fall of the Detection Story” by W. Somerset Maugham collected in The Vagrant Mood — “Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?” by Edmund Wilson in The New Yorker (20 June 1945) — “Manx Gold” by Agatha Christie collected in While The Light Lasts — Not To Be Taken by Anthony Berkeley — Death in the House by Anthony Berkeley — "Mr Cork's Secret” by MacDonald Hastings collected in Crimson Snow — The Crime of the Century by Kingsley Amis — Cain's Jawbone by E. Powys Mathers, aka Torquemada NB: Links to Blackwell's are affiliate links, meaning that the podcast receives a small commission when you purchase a book there (the price remains the same for you). Blackwell's is a UK bookselling chain that ships internationally at no extra charge. 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, 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/aprizemysterytranscript Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What you're about to hear is a live episode of She Done It, recorded at the 2022 International
0:08.4	Ag of the Christy Festival in Turkey. Enjoy.
0:18.3	Hello, welcome to She Done It. I'm Caroline Crabpton.
0:22.5	Our story today starts on Monday 1 March 1926.
0:28.2	A woman opens a newspaper and finds herself drawn in by a story published inside.
0:35.4	In this edition, the Daily Mirror has printed the first installment of a new who done it,
0:39.7	The Wintering and Mystery, by a relatively unknown writer by the name of A.B. Cots.
0:45.5	It starts with a scene that could be straight out of P.T. Woodhouse.
0:49.1	A young man named Stephen Monroe is telling his confidential van at Bridger
0:53.9	that the legacy they have lived upon since the end of the First World War is all gone.
0:58.6	Consequently, he has taken a position as a footman at a country house named Winteringham Hall,
1:04.4	an unthinkable climb down for a public school and varsity man who's served in the trenches.
1:10.7	Already, our woman reading is intrigued.
1:14.2	She, like every other middle-class housewife in 1926, knows only too well
1:19.4	that jobs for demon soldiers and experienced country house servants are equally hard to come by.
1:26.2	And once Stephen is installed in his new position as footman,
1:29.2	the compelling details keep coming.
1:31.5	The grumpy and ancient lady of the manor has assembled an oddly mismatched house party.
1:37.1	Her companion, Millicent, seems to be utterly crushed by the force of the old lady's personality.
1:42.8	And her wards stellar appears to have a dark secret that she doesn't want anyone else to know.
1:48.3	And then the big cliffhanger.
1:50.6	Stephen, the new footman, opens the front door of Winteringham Hall to admit a guest
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