Edmund Crispin's Inside Jokes

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The creator of amateur sleuth Gervase Fen loved to make fun of detective fiction. The 2024 Shedunnit Pledge Drive is underway! Help ensure the future of the podcast and get at least two bonus episodes a month by becoming a Shedunnit member now at shedunnitshow.com/pledgedrive. Mentioned in this episode: — The Crooked Hinge by John Dickson Carr — Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin: A Life in Music and Books by David Whittle — The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin — Love Lies Bleeding by Edmund Crispin — The Glimpses of the Moon by Edmund Crispin — The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin — Swan Song by Edmund Crispin — Holy Disorders by Edmund Crispin — Frequent Hearses by Edmund Crispin — Buried for Pleasure by Edmund Crispin — Hamlet, Revenge! by Michael Innes — The Long Divorce by Edmund Crispin — "We Know You're Busy Writing, But We Thought You Wouldn't Mind If We Just Dropped In For A Minute" by Edmund Crispin 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/edmundcrispinsinsidejokestranscript. 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	You know what that is.
0:04.0	An ice cold beer.
0:07.0	What's different?
0:09.0	It's Budweiser, a perfect beer for party season.
0:14.0	Best enjoyed with your best buds.
0:20.0	Cheers to that. Budweiser, like no way. best enjoyed with your best butts.
0:22.3	Cheers to that.
0:25.3	Budweiser, like no other.
0:26.8	Please drink responsibly.
0:28.8	For the facts, visit drinkaware.com.uker. UK.
0:33.7	We begin in a pub, a pub in Oxford.
0:39.3	The year is 1943. A student, just 22 years old, is having a drink with a theatrical acquaintance,
0:45.3	reminiscing over some performances they collaborated on the previous year.
0:50.3	As was often the case with their friendship, the talk turned to books, what they had been
0:55.4	reading, what they had thought of it, what they might read next.
1:00.4	The theatrical acquaintance, whose name was John Maxwell, was astonished and amused when
1:06.0	he started waxing lyrical about his love for the detective fiction of John Dixon Carr, and his friend
1:11.7	had no idea what he was talking about. So passionate was he about correcting this deficiency
1:17.6	immediately, that when the pub closed, Maxwell made his friend come home with him and pick up a copy
1:23.8	of a car novel to take with him. His friend did not sleep that night.
1:30.6	The Crooked Hinge, Carr's 1938 novel, in which sleuth Dr. Gideon fell untangles a mystery
1:36.5	that involves impossible murders, The Titanic and Witchcraft, held him completely captivated.
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