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You tell anyone and I mean anyone about me I will kill you starring Jody Whitaker tomorrow Lawrence and

Bella Ramsey time watch on BBC I player Even the best detectives get stuck during their cases.

The alibis are overlapping, the witnesses are contradicting themselves, and the medical evidence isn't

making anything clearer. As readers of who-doneits, as confused as our sloths,

it's hard not to think about how much easier everything would be if the victim could just

tell us what happened, if the dead could speak to the living. So were ideas that death was not the end.

Spiritualism, a term which encompasses a set of beliefs and techniques that are to do with making contact with those who have passed on beyond this mortal plane, was also rapidly

attracting fans in the 1880s and 90s, and the advent of the First World War

only increased the number of grieving relations looking for solace in this way.

Although the traditional rules of Golden Age detective fiction prohibit the inclusion of

supernatural plot devices, many authors including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gladys Mitchell and more, made use of

seances, mediums and spirits in their work. On the surface, applying logical deduction and listening to the

whisperings of wayward spirits seem to be two completely different things,

but they are intertwined in the detective fiction of this period in some fascinating ways.

Perhaps the detective and the medium have more in common than the likes of Hercule Poirot would like to admit.

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