LoLT: History Extra Halloween Podcasts and Two New Books

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Melissa & Dave

Books, Arts

5.0 • 559 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In this episode, we get excited about two books: The Hitchcock Hotel by Stephanie Wrobel and Book and Dagger by Elyse Graham. Then Mel recommends the History Extra podcast for your Spooky Season storytelling needs. Links The Hitchcock Hotel by Stephanie Wrobel Book and Dagger by Elyse Graham History Extra podcast Ancient Egypt: The Big Questions Salem: Investigating the Witch Trials More episodes about witches Halloween episodes Transcript of this episode. The Library of Lost Time is a Strong Sense of Place Production! https://strongsenseofplace.com Join our FREE Substack to get our (awesome) newsletter and join in chats with other people who love books and travel. Do you enjoy our show? Do you want to make friends with other (lovely) listeners? Please support our work on Patreon. Every little bit helps us keep the show going and makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside - https://www.patreon.com/strongsenseofplace As always, you can find us at: Our site Instagram Substack Patreon Parts of the Strong Sense of Place podcast are produced in udio! Some effects are provided by soundly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up, a mystery novel inspired by Hollywood's Master of Suspense.
0:05.7	Nonfiction about the librarian spies of World War II.
0:10.0	Plus our distraction of the week. I'm Mel.
0:12.6	I'm Dave. This is the Library of Lost Time.
0:16.5	The book I'm talking about today is at the top of my TBR.
0:20.9	I have two more books to read for our strong sense of play season and that I'm all in on spooky.
0:28.1	One second after I turn the final page of my last book set in Seattle, I'm opening the cover of the Hitchcock Hotel by Stephanie Roble.
0:37.0	Here's the setup. The main character is
0:39.9	Alfred Smeddle. Alfred Smeil. I mean, right off the bat. What a name. Yeah. Alfred Smeddle is the number
0:48.1	one fan of filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. He loves Hitchcock's film so much, he's turned Victorian Mansion into a hotel devoted to the director.
0:59.0	That seems to be inviting trouble.
1:01.2	Doesn't it? Yeah.
1:02.5	The rooms are decorated with movie memorabilia. There are film screenings 24-7, and in case that's not immersive enough, there's an aviary stocked with a murder of 50
1:13.8	crows. He is living his best creepy life. Yes. To celebrate the one-year anniversary of the hotel,
1:21.2	which is in the New England Mountains, he invites his former film club members for a getaway.
1:27.2	They haven't spoken to each other for 16 years.
1:30.1	No.
1:30.9	But each of them accepts his invitation for reasons.
1:35.3	And then somebody ends up dead.
1:38.2	Well, yeah.
1:39.2	Yay.
1:40.3	Should have seen that coming.
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