Margery Allingham Waits For The Invasion

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

For Albert Campion's creator, the war was her salvation. This is the third episode of Queens of Crime at War, a six part series looking at what the best writers from the golden age of detective fiction did once that period came to an end with the start of the Second World War. There are no spoilers in this episode. Books referenced: — Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham — Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers — The Fashion in Shrouds by Margery Allingham — Traitor's Purse by Margery Allingham — Coroner's Pidgin by Margery Allingham — The Oaken Heart by Margery Allingham — The Adventures of Margery Allingham by Julia Jones (aka Julia Thorogood) — Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham by Richard Martin — Mr Campion's Career by B. A. Pike To be the first to know about future developments with the podcast, sign up for the newsletter at shedunnitshow.com/newsletter. Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/margeryallinghamwaitsfortheinvasiontranscript. 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. The original music for this series, "The Case Of The Black Stormcloud", was created by Martin Zaltz Austwick. Find out more about his work at martinzaltzaustwick.wordpress.com. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It was the scandal everyone was talking about.
0:03.0	Colleen Rooney and Rebecca Vardy.
0:05.0	War over the wise.
0:06.0	Streaming exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:09.0	I'm Colleen Rooney and for the first time,
0:12.0	I'm telling my side of the story.
0:14.0	Every last detail.
0:17.0	They are my words and I stick by them.
0:20.0	Colleen Rooney, the real Waggappa story.
0:23.0	An original series streaming October 18,
0:25.0	exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:27.0	18 Plus subscription required teasing sees apply.
0:38.0	Welcome to She Done It.
0:40.0	I'm Caroline Crampton.
0:52.0	This is another episode of Queens of Crime at War.
0:56.0	A series looking at what the best writers from the Golden Age of Detective Viction
1:00.0	did once that period came to an end with the start of the Second World War.
1:05.0	Today's subject is a writer who started very young.
1:09.0	She did her first piece of paid writing at the age of eight
1:12.0	when an article she wrote appeared in a magazine edited by her aunt.
1:17.0	Her first film length novel was published when she was 19
1:21.0	and dozens more would flow from her pen in the years that followed.
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