A Second Century of Whodunnits

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Reading my way through the last hundred years, from the 1920s to the 2020s, one mystery at a time. My previous attempt at this reading project can be found in the episode A Century of Whodunnits. Books mentioned: — Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L Sayers — Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles — Laurels are Poison by Gladys Mitchell — The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey — The Belting Inheritance by Julian Symons — Tied Up in Tinsel by Ngaio Marsh — A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine — Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell — Death in Holy Orders by P. D. James — Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch — The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman To be the first to know about future developments with the podcast, sign up for the newsletter at shedunnitshow.com/newsletter. Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/asecondcenturyofwhodunnitstranscript. 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. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	About a year ago, many months into being stuck inside because of the pandemic, I embarked
0:10.4	on a reading project.
0:12.9	I read a crime novel from every decade of the 20th century, ten who done it that spanned
0:18.7	the years between 1900 and 2000.
0:23.0	It both helped me to get out of a reading rut where I couldn't stick with any one book
0:27.4	long enough to finish it.
0:30.3	And it gave me a zoomed out perspective on this genre that I usually think about only
0:35.0	in relation to the short period between the two world wars that we call the Golden Age
0:40.0	of Detective Fiction.
0:43.3	I shared the results of my experiment with listeners in an episode called A Century of
0:47.9	Who Done It's.
0:49.5	And to my surprise, it's become one of the most popular installments of the podcast
0:53.5	I've ever made.
0:55.6	Just later, people were still emailing me to tell me that they tried their own version
1:00.1	of this experiment, picking books from across the century to read and reflect on as they
1:05.5	go deeper into their understanding of crime fiction.
1:09.4	It really is an excellent way of seeing how the genre developed from decade to decade
1:14.2	and of getting closer to the experience of readers who encountered these books as new
1:18.7	publications, free of our modern day context.
1:23.6	As 2021 was drawing to a close, I found the reading slump creeping up on me again.
1:30.2	Nothing I tried reading seemed to be what I wanted, and the unfinished books started to
1:34.6	pile up on my floor again.
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