Off The Rails

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

There’s something so linear and definite about a train journey — it can only take you from A to B, with no possible deviations. Except when murder intervenes, and throws everything off the rails. Find links to all the books mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/offtherails. 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/membership. Books and sources: —The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle —"The Fallow Fields of Fiction" by Arnold Bennett in The Author's Craft: And Other Critical Writings of Arnold Bennett —The Edwardian Detective: 1901-15 by Joseph A Kestner —Thrilling Stories of the Railway by V.L. Whitechurch —The Cask by Freeman Wills Crofts —Bloody Murder by Julian Symons —Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-19 by Curtis Evans —"A Mystery of the Underground" by John Oxenham, collected in Capital Crimes: London Mysteries —4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie —The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie —The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie —Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie —An Autobiography by Agatha Christie —The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan —Stamboul Train by Graham Greene —Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith —The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White —The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins —The Railway Detective by Edward Marston 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/offtherailstranscript. 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	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.
0:25.2	The world be easy.
0:26.2	Stream all day with nothing to pay.
0:28.8	Pluto TV. It's an iconic mystery setting, almost to the point of cliche, reproduced in lovingly nostalgic
0:46.3	detail in films and TV adaptations.
0:50.3	The paneled walls of polished wood, deep carpets, comfortable seats covered in plush velvet and attendance in sharp uniforms,
0:58.0	ready to cater to the passengers every whim.
1:02.0	There's something so linear and definite about a train journey. It can only take you from
1:08.0	A to B with no possible deviations, except when murder intervenes and throws everything off the rails. Trains were a very popular setting for detective novels in the 1920s and 30s.
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