Death By Chocolate

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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A box of chocolates can conceal a poisonous secret. Find out more at shedunnitshow.com/deathbychocolate. To support the podcast, be part of a superb bookish community, and get two bonus episodes a month, become a member of the Shedunnit Book Club now at shedunnitbookclub.com/join. Books mentioned: — The Case of the Chocolate Cream Killer by Kaye Jones — The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders — The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley — "The Chocolate Box" in Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie — Peril at End House by Agatha Christie — At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie — Framed For Hanging by Guy Cullingford — Sweet Poison by Rupert Penny — Deed Without A Name by Dorothy Bowers — The Black Spectacles by John Dickson Carr (aka The Problem of the Green Capsule) 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 bookseller 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/deathbychocolatetranscript. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are you ready for a Monzo Business Bank account? Mike from Bluewater Plumbing was.
0:05.0	I need to get paid quickly, especially when I have five or six plumbing jobs in a day.
0:08.0	When I first used the payment link feature in my Monzo Business account,
0:11.0	I was impressed to how quick and easy it was. At the end of each job,
0:14.0	I'll just create a payment link, send it to the customer, and get paid then and there.
0:17.0	I can also track all of my payments in my get paid tab.
0:20.0	If you're ready for a Monzo Business account, apply today.
0:23.0	Just search Monzo Business, season sees apply.
0:26.0	Only sole traders or limited company directors in the UK can apply.
0:34.0	There's something about the combination of sweetness and poison
0:38.0	that was irresistible to the writers of golden age detective fiction.
0:43.0	Perhaps it's merely the symbolism that appealed.
0:46.0	The sugary flavour of a treat that conceals the bitter taste of death
0:50.0	is the ultimate in contrasts.
0:54.0	Maybe there was a practical aspect to it too.
0:57.0	Poisoners need to introduce their deadly wares to their victims unobtrusively
1:02.0	and it's far less suspicious to make a gift of a nice treat than a meat pie, say.
1:08.0	Whatever the reason, crime fiction of the 1920s and 30s is littered with sweets
1:14.0	that pack a deadly punch. Boxes of chocolates, especially.
1:19.0	Experienced reader of who done it snows to check the bottom of their favourite
1:23.0	truffle to see if it shows signs of having been tampered with.
1:28.0	But half a century before the likes of Ag the Christie and Antony Barkley
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