Close Reads #34: Introducing Murder Must Advertise
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2017
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Close Reads, Angelina, Tim, and David kick off their ongoing discussion of Dorothy Sayer's classic mystery novel, Murder Must Advertise, one of the Lord Peter Wimsey stories.
Topics include: The value of mystery stories as literature, Lord Peter vs Sherlock Holmes, Dorothy Sayers biography, and Sayers' rules of mystery writing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Sersi Institute Podcast Network. |
| 0:12.4 | You are listening to Close Reeds. |
| 0:14.5 | As always on Close Reeds, I am joined by Angelina Stanford and Tim McIntosh, |
| 0:18.7 | and I forgot to say that I'm David Kern, so I'm David Kern. |
| 0:21.4 | Angelina, Tim, how's it going? |
| 0:23.1 | It's going good. |
| 0:24.9 | David, it's going splendidly. |
| 0:28.2 | Excellent. |
| 0:29.3 | We are here to discuss books, books and more books. |
| 0:35.7 | And it is a new year, which means it's a new book. |
| 0:39.2 | And when we're kicking off the new year, why not kick off the new year with something |
| 0:43.9 | kind of fun? |
| 0:44.5 | You know, it's winter. |
| 0:46.1 | It's the snow on the ground in a lot of places. |
| 0:48.4 | For many of our listeners, it's like zero degrees. |
| 0:52.7 | The fog creates a mysterious air in some of the cities that we're living in. |
| 0:59.5 | There is that indeed. |
| 1:01.2 | And also, it might just be fun to read something fun at this time of year. |
| 1:05.3 | Something a little lighter. |
| 1:06.9 | As we enter those months of the school year when you know you are just pushing through sometimes |
| 1:14.6 | and it's not always the easiest time to be a teacher especially as we hit you know |
| 1:20.0 | February here in a couple weeks so today is January 13th Friday wait it's the Friday the 13th guys |
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