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Shedunnit

Notable Trials

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

How did a legal history series become so well known that even Lord Peter Wimsey owned a set? Find links to all the books and sources mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/notabletrials. Special thanks today to my guest Dr Victoria Stewart. You can follow her on Twitter @verbivorial and order her book Crime Writing in Interwar Britain: Fact and Fiction in the Golden Age here. Become a member of the Shedunnit book club and get bonus audio, listen to ad free episodes and join a book-loving community at shedunnitshow.com/bookclub. Books and sources: —Strong Poison (1930) by Dorothy L. Sayers —A Pin To See The Peep Show  (1934) by F Tennyson Jesse —Portrait of Fryn: Biography of F.Tennyson Jesse (1984) by Joanna Colenbrander —The Anatomy of Murder (1936) by The Detection Club —The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929) by Anthony Berkeley —Malice Aforethought (1931) by Francis Iles —"Decline of the English Murder" (1946) by George Orwell —Death at the Opera (1934) by Gladys Mitchell 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, Tumblr 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/notabletrialstranscript. Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Stream your favorite crime all the time on Pluto TV.

0:04.0

The investigation is ongoing.

0:06.0

Uncover true crime documentaries.

0:08.0

Well, this is interesting.

0:09.0

Do some serious time with bingable dramas.

0:12.0

My name's Gil Grissom.

0:13.0

I'm with the Las Vegas Crime Law.

0:15.0

Everything from CSI.

0:16.0

We got you.

0:17.0

To police intercepts.

0:18.0

Police in the dog.

0:19.0

There are loads of channels

0:21.0

dedicated to the crime shows you love.

0:23.4

That's what I do.

0:25.4

The world be easy.

0:26.4

Stream all day with nothing to pay.

0:28.8

Pluto TV. Towards the end of Dorothy L. Sayer's 1930 novel Strong Poison, her sleuth Lord

0:40.8

Peter whimsy is feeling stumped.

0:44.0

He's tackled a tricky poisoning case with all the verve and enthusiasm that readers of the previous four

0:50.1

whimsy books had come to expect.

0:53.0

He's dashed about London, planting spies in crucial locations,

0:56.8

and chivying Scotland Yard into tracking down the most obscure clues.

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