My First Green Penguin

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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We’ve got puffins, peacocks and penguins galore! A full list of titles in the Penguin series can be found at penguinfirsteditions.com. The next book discussed in this series will be The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace. Support the podcast by joining the Shedunnit Book Club and get extra Shedunnit episodes every month plus access to the monthly reading discussions and community: shedunnitbookclub.com/join. Books mentioned in this episode:— The Missing Moneylender by W. Stanley Sykes— A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett— Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild— Apple Bough by Noel Streatfeild— Jennings and Darbishire by Anthony Buckeridge— How to Be Topp by Geoffrey Willans— Still She Wished For Company by Margaret Irwin— I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith— Raffles by E.W. Hornung— The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace— Green for Danger by Christiana Brand— The Plague Court Murders by John Dickson Carr— The Red Widow Murders by John Dickson Carr— The White Priory by John Dickson Carr— The House on Tollard Ridge by John Rhode— The Dangerfield Talisman by J.J. Connington— The Man in the Dark by John Ferguson— In Spite of Thunder by John Dickson Carr— Postern to Fate by Agatha Christie— Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie— Trent's Last Case by E.C. Bentley— The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie— The Chinese Gold Murders by Robert Van Gulik— The Rasp by Philip MacDonald— The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham— The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler— Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler— The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.0	18 plus, next required. Want to save big on party pleasers? Ask Sainsbury's. Sainsbury's good food for all of us.
0:23.2	18 plus, next required, cheapest product free, available in store and online, excluding locals, subject to availability, teas and sees apply.
0:35.1	Welcome to She Done It. I'm Caroline Crampton. I'm two years and 12 books into Green Penguin Book Club,
0:42.3	my ongoing series within She Done It, where I'm reading all the books in the Penguin Crime
0:46.8	series in order and discussing each one with a different guest. I absolutely love doing it.
0:52.4	It brings me into contact both with crime novels that were popular
0:55.6	at the time of publication, but which have now faded from view, and acknowledged classics that I can
1:00.9	consider in a new light. The one overarching thing I've learned so far is that people tend to
1:09.1	have quite a close and emotional connection
1:11.2	to the original Penguin series. It's more than just a list of books. For lots of people,
1:17.0	it was their way into reading, or of discovering new authors, or of collecting rare titles.
1:22.8	Over the course of this year, I've been asking all of my guests about their history with
1:27.1	the series,
1:27.9	and today you're going to hear what they had to say.
1:38.3	To begin with, cast your mind back to the first Green Penguin Book Club episode of the year,
1:43.3	when Moira Redmond and I read a book
1:45.0	that was completely unknown to both of us, The Missing Money Lender by W. Stanley Sykes.
1:50.5	That proved to be a surprisingly good read, avoiding most of our fears about anti-Semitic tropes,
1:56.2	and introducing us to an interesting medical mystery. As well as talking all about that, though, I got Moira
2:02.3	to tell me more about her first contact with the penguin extended universe, as it were,
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