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🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of The Marlow Murder Club Season 2.

Author Robert Thorogood fell in love with murder mysteries at a young age when he stumbled across an Agatha Christie novel at his great aunt’s house. Since then, he’s been determined to write his own golden age style murder mysteries. In this conversation, we talk with Robert about his life, creative process, and the inspiration and backstory to The Marlow Murder Club.

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0:25.8	I'm Jace Lay Cobb, and you're listening to Masterpiece Studio. A mysterious phone call
0:31.7	brings retired archaeologist Judith Potts and her two friends, Bex and Susie, to a garden
0:36.9	party at the home of Marlowe
0:38.4	Grandee, Sir Peter Bailey. On the phone call, Sir Peter told Judith he was worried something bad
0:43.9	might happen at the party, but couldn't say more over the phone. Champagne, flowers, and a string
0:49.9	quartet welcomed Judith, Bex, and Susie as they arrive. But it's not all breezy, as any elegant
0:55.6	summer garden party wouldn't be complete without a bit of drama. However, at this particular
1:00.8	sware, that little bit of drama turns out to be something far more serious. A loud crash
1:06.7	brings the partygoers inside to find their host crushed to death beneath a bookshelf.
1:11.6	Help me lift this! Come on! Come on! All together now!
1:17.6	And...
1:18.6	And...
1:19.6	Oh, no! No! No! no, no, no, no.
1:28.3	We need to call an ambulance.
1:30.3	And just like that, Marlowe's unlikely yet highly skilled crime-solving trio jumps back into action.
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