Murder-on-Sea

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Murder does like to be beside the seaside. Thanks very much to my guests. Dr Allan Brodie is a visiting fellow at Bournemouth University and the author of books including England's Seaside Heritage from the Air. Dr Kathryn Ferry is a historian of the British seaside and the author of books including The British Seaside Holiday, more information available at kathrynferry.co.uk. Be aware: there is a brief, non-specific mention of suicide in this episode. There are no major spoilers and non-spoiler details given about the books listed below. Mentioned in this episode: — The Cornish Coast Murder by John Bude — The Sea Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts — Mist on the Saltings by Henry Wade — The Cape Cod Mystery by Phoebe Atwood Taylor — And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie — Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie — The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie — N or M? by Agatha Christie — Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers — The Seat of the Scornful by John Dickson Carr — When Last I Died by Gladys Mitchell — “Razor Edge” by Anthony Berkeley, collected in Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards — The Case of the Haven Hotel by Christopher Bush — A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey — Mystery at Lynden Sands by JJ Connington — And Being Dead by Margaret Erskine — The Crime Coast by Elizabeth Gill — The Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers — Death at the Bar by Ngaio Marsh Related Shedunnit episodes: — Episode 1 of "Mysteries of Summer": Cricket and Crime — Episode 2 of "Mysteries of Summer": Murder in a Heatwave — Murder on Holiday 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/murderonseatranscript. 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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0:34.8	The seaside, especially an English coastal resort, is an iconic location for a classic murder mystery.
0:42.8	We only have to browse quickly through some titles from the 1920s and 30s to see this.
0:48.6	With names like the Cornished Coast Murder, the Sea Mystery, missed on the Saltings,
0:54.3	the Cape Cod Mystery, and plenty of others immediately making the point. What could be more suitable
1:00.8	after all? The quintessential British seaside town is a place where lots of different types of
1:06.3	people who would never otherwise meet, mingle together in close quarters, all in high holiday spirits.
1:14.2	And they spend their time near natural hazards that can easily be turned to the advantage of a
1:19.2	murderer. The Sea with its currents and waves and tides, sounds that can shift and sink,
1:25.2	and treacherous rocky cliffs. I hope you packed your bucket and spade, because in this final
1:31.9	instalment of she done its mysteries of summer trilogy, we're all going to the seaside.
1:40.3	Welcome to She Done It. I'm Caroline Crampton. A warning before we get started.
1:53.3	There is a brief mention of suicide in this episode. There's more information about that,
1:58.5	and a list of books to consult for spoiler purposes in the description for this episode.
2:10.4	So many of the popular writers from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction have at least one mystery
2:17.5	that takes place at the seaside or by the sea. Agatha Christie has a few, in fact, and then there
2:24.2	were none, of course, is set on a small island off the coast of Devon, but it is in books like
2:29.4	Evil Under the Sun, The Body and the Library, and N or M, where we really see her turn her attention
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