Golden Age Inspiration

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

How do you write a 1920s style detective novel that's set in the 2020s? Thanks to Elly Griffiths, aka Domenica De Rosa, for joining me today to talk about her love of golden age crime fiction and how she put that into her award winning novel The Postscript Murders. She also writes the Ruth Galloway series and the Brighton Mysteries series — find out more at her website ellygriffiths.co.uk and follower her on Twitter @ellygriffiths. The Shedunnit Book Club is reading The Postscript Murders in June 2021 — if you'd like to join us you can become a member at shedunnitbookclub.com/join. There are no major spoilers in this episode, but there is some reference to the plot outline of The Postscript Murders. Books referenced: — The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths — Cinderella Goes To The Morgue by Nancy Spain — A Girl Called Justice by Elly Griffiths — Opening Night by Ngaio Marsh — The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman — By The Pricking Of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie — The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey — Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey 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 independent bookselling chain that ships internationally at no extra charge. Thanks to today’s sponsors. You can get $5 off mail based Victorian mystery game Dear Holmes at dearholmes.com/shedunnit using code "shedunnit" at checkout. The audiobook of Laura Ruby's Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All is available at your audiobook retailer of choice. 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/goldenageinspirationtranscript. 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	How do I tell them?
0:01.3	How do I tell them?
0:02.9	How do I be the bills?
0:04.6	How do I pay the bills?
0:07.4	I know what goes through your head when you're living with cancer.
0:10.9	The questions, the fears, they need to know.
0:14.7	How do I know?
0:16.0	Because I'm living with cancer too.
0:18.8	That's why I joined the McMillan Online Community
0:22.1	and we can help people like you.
0:24.5	Whatever you need to ask.
0:26.8	To join us, search McMillan Online Community.
0:30.1	How do I help people like you?
0:34.4	Welcome to She Done It.
0:36.2	I'm Caroline Crampton.
0:38.8	Golden Age Detective Fiction is having a bit of a moment.
0:43.6	Over the last few years, there's been a resurgence of interest in crime fiction
0:48.0	from the 1920s, 30s and 40s, with hard to obtain titles receiving new editions
0:54.7	and new TV and film adaptations in the works.
0:58.1	But it isn't just in the books from that period that we see this effect.
1:03.6	Today's crime writers are turning more and more to the details and tropes of the classic
1:08.4	who done it.
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