Death at the Speakeasy

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

During Prohibition, the cocktails are downright criminal. This episode was hosted by Leandra Griffith with guest (and usual host) Caroline Crampton. If you are interested in seeing more content from Leandra, you can find her on YouTube and Instagram. Caroline's new book, A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria, is out now. To find out more and get your copy, visit her website carolinecrampton.com/abodymadeofglass. Join the Shedunnit Book Club for two extra Shedunnit episodes a month plus access to the monthly reading discussions and community: shedunnitbookclub.com/join Fact-Check Correction: During the episode, it is mentioned that Raymond Chandler was born in the UK. This is incorrect. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. Mentioned in this episode: — The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald — The Turquoise Shop by Frances Crane — The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett — The Fabulous Clipjoint by Fredric Brown — Deadline at Dawn by Cornell Woolrich — The Roman Hat Mystery by Ellery Queen — Murder on 'B' Deck by Vincent Starrett — Obelists at Sea by C. Daly King — Headed for a Hearse by Jonathan Latimer — The Eight of Swords by John Dickson Carr — Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie 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/deathatthespeakeasytranscript. 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	The date is Friday, 16th January 1920.
0:08.0	At the Metropolitan Club in Washington, D.C.
0:10.9	Assistant Secretary of the Navy and future 32nd President of the United States, Franklin
0:16.6	D Roosevelt spends this winter evening drinking champagne with other members of the Harvard Class of 1904.
0:24.0	Further north, on a New York City sidewalk, Gold's Liquor Store sets out wicker baskets
0:30.0	filled with its remaining inventory marked by a sign reading,
0:34.0	Every Bottle, $1.
0:36.6	On the West Coast, Stanford University student,
0:39.4	Ken Lillie drives with two classmates
0:41.9	through the late night streets of San Jose when his car
0:45.2	crashes into a telephone pole. The driver and his passengers would recover, but the
0:50.4	40 gallon barrel of wine they'd been transporting dies the street red.
0:55.6	Meanwhile, evangelist Billy Sunday speaks to 10,000 of his followers in Virginia.
1:02.1	He proclaims victoriously, the reign of tears is over. The slums will
1:07.4	soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and corn cribs.
1:15.0	Men will walk up right now.
1:17.0	Women will smile and the children will laugh.
1:20.0	Hell will be forever for rent.
1:23.0	The date is Friday, 16th January, 1920, and tomorrow,
1:28.0	the manufacturer, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages will be prohibited in the United States. Welcome to She Dunnet. I'm Leander Griffith,
2:00.0	Caroline's production assistant and a scholar of detective fiction myself. I'm my master's thesis on Miss Marple. While I do read a lot of British crime fiction, I also like to explore
2:16.4	what writers in America were doing with the genre at the same time. And I've been wondering, is it possible to read American crime fiction from the Golden Age
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