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Poison Pen

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Nothing could bad could possibly happen here, the inhabitants of the peaceful English village say to each other. Until the first poison pen letter arrives. No major spoilers about clues or endings in this episode. However, there is some mention or discussion of the books listed below. Also, be aware there is a very brief mention of suicide. Books and sources: —The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie —“The Lernean Hydra” in The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie —Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers —Policemen in the Precinct by E.C.R. Lorac —The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters by Enid Blyton —Overture to Death by Ngaio Marsh —Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers —Poison in the Pen by Patricia Wentworth —Details of the James Forster poison pen case in Manfield, Yorkshire —"The Poison Pen Letter: the Early 20th Century's Strangest Crime Wave" by Curtis Evans —Fear Stalks the Village by Ethel Lina White 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/poisonpentranscript. 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

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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.

0:25.1

The world be easy.

0:26.1

Stream all day with nothing to pay.

0:28.8

Pluto TV. The peaceful English village is the heart of so many classic crime stories that it's really a character in itself,

0:43.4

especially pre-1945, a village can be the world in miniature,

0:48.4

with its own class hierarchy and rumor mill.

0:57.8

And most importantly a sleepy country village comes with an expectation of calm and of untroubled innocence. gets to work that is, using their missives to expose the undercurrents of vice and malice hidden

1:16.4

beneath the serene exterior. Such campaigns of anonymous letters are a staple of

1:22.4

classic crime fiction, with writers like Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Seers, Patricia Wentworth, and plenty more, using them as a way of ratcheting up the tension and psychological drama.

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