Murder in the Library

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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There’s something sinister in the stacks. Thanks to my guest Harriet Evans, aka Harriet F. Townson, who is the author of D is for Death. My new book, A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria, is out now. To find out more and get your copy, visit my website carolinecrampton.com/abodymadeofglass. Join the Shedunnit Book Club for two extra Shedunnit episodes a month plus access to the monthly reading discussions and community: shedunnitbookclub.com/join Mentioned in this episode: — The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie — The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green — A Case of Books by Bruce Graeme — The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers — Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers — Operation Pax by Michael Innes — The Widening Stain by W. Bolingbroke Johnson — "The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges — The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco — Katie's Terror by David Fisher — The Jacqueline Kirkby series by Elizabeth Peters — Open and Closed by Mat Coward — The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill — D is for Death by Harriet F. Townson — Letters from Menabilly: Portrait of a Friendship by Oriel Malet 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/murderinthelibrarytranscript. 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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0:41.0	We've all felt it. The shiver down the back of the spine when entering a room,
0:46.8	and the sense that somebody, long dead or imaginary, exited out of the opposite door just
0:52.2	before we entered,
0:53.5	air that is still, yet heavy with the feeling that something happened here,
0:58.5	and might happen again, any moment.
1:03.0	This feeling can exist anywhere,
1:05.0	but I think it's most reliably to be found in libraries,
1:09.0	especially old libraries that contain a lot of very special books and have a really good
1:14.0	smell about them. These are pivot places that hold many possibilities in
1:19.5	parallel where at any moment your life might change forever, depending on which book you take down off the shelf.
1:27.0	Perhaps that's why, for well over a century now, detective novelists have been so fond of using them in their plots,
1:34.0	as a place for corpses to be discovered and clues to be unraveled.
1:38.0	Everybody's story has both a beginning and an end, doesn't it?
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