Meet The Coles

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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What happens when a couple of socialists decide to write mysteries? Thanks to my guest, Curtis Evans. If you are interested in his book, The Spectrum of the English Murder, it is available through Blackwell's and other booksellers. Join Caroline and guest Teresa Peschel for a free live episode of Shedunnit on YouTube on 15th July at 7pm UK time. More details: shedunnitshow.com/liveepisode Mentioned in this episode: — The Spectrum of English Murder by by Curtis Evans — The World of Labour by GDH Cole — An Introduction to Trade Unionism by GDH Cole — The Intelligent Man's Guide Through World Chaos by GDH Cole — What Marx Really Meant by GDH Cole — Whose Body? by Dorothy L Sayers — The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie — The Cask by Freeman Wills Crofts — The Brooklyn Murders by GDH Cole — The Death of a Millionaire by GDH and Margaret Cole — Snobbery With Violence by Colin Watson — Big Business Murder by GDH and Margaret Cole — The Brothers Sackville by GDH and Margaret Cole — Disgrace To The College by GDH and Margaret Cole — Double Blackmail by GDH and Margaret Cole — Murder at the Munition Works by GDH and Margaret Cole — Scandal at School by GDH and Margaret Cole — Burglars In Buck by GDH and Margaret Cole — Greek Tragedy by GDH and Margaret Cole — Knife in the Dark by GDH and Margaret Cole Related Shedunnit episodes: — The Mysterious Dorothy Bowers — Double Trouble — Policing the Detectives 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/meetthecolestranscript. 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	She even as recently as 10 years ago, being a fan of Golden Age detective fiction was a very
0:09.7	different experience. Today we're living in a thriving culture of reprints, with previously
0:16.4	hard-to-find titles being brought back into mainstream accessibility in gorgeous new additions
0:21.6	with informative introductions. But it certainly wasn't always this way. For a long time, the style of
0:28.0	mystery that we love from the 1920s and 30s was out of favour with both publishers and the
0:33.6	majority of the reading public. Some authors, like Agatha Christie, have always remained in print
0:39.6	and readily available. Others weren't so fortunate. Unless you got lucky in a second hand bookshop
0:46.5	or library, there was often no way of getting hold of a more obscure title. Fortunately, this is a
0:54.1	problem that is now largely behind us. Most of the major crime writers from the interwar years
0:59.6	are now relatively easy to track down in physical or digital form or both. With one really significant
1:06.9	exception, they were founding members of the Detection Club, wrote 28 mystery novels beginning in
1:13.5	1923, created a long-running series detective, were published in the Famous Green Penguin
1:19.4	Crime series, and yet you still need to be very fortunate to find an affordable copy of one of
1:25.1	their books to buy. Today, we're going to meet the Coles.
1:29.4	Welcome to She Done It. I'm Caroline Crampton.
1:50.9	Before we dive into the episode proper, I wanted to let you know that I'm doing a special
1:55.4	live episode of the podcast on the 15th of July at 7pm UK time. All about the many, many film
2:02.8	and TV adaptations that have been made of Agatha Christie's work. It's happening online on YouTube
2:09.1	and is completely free to attend. My guest will be Theresa Peschel, author of Agatha Christie,
2:15.1	she watched, and there'll be an opportunity for you to ask questions live. The event will also
2:20.6	be available to watch back afterwards if you can't make it on the day. This is my thank you for
2:25.6	all the support listeners gave to the show during last year's pledge drive, and I hope as many of
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