The Documents in the Case (Green Penguin Book Club 13)

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Victoria Stewart joins Caroline to discuss Dorothy L. Sayers’ epistolary poisoning mystery. No major plot spoilers until you hear Caroline say we are "entering the spoiler zone", at 14:59. After that, expect full spoilers. 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 Sandfield Scandal by Richard Keverne. 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 Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace— Crime Writing in Interwar Britain by Victoria Stewart— Literature and Justice in Mid-Twentieth Century Literature by Victoria Stewart— The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins— Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers— Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers— A Pin to See the Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse 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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0:00.0	I'm going to tell you exactly what you need to do.
0:02.1	Dominate your finances.
0:04.3	Sunday morning, listening to questionable financial advice from the Fintock Bros on his social feed.
0:10.9	Drowning in green.
0:12.7	Scale, scale, scale, scale, scale.
0:14.8	This is the moment Isaac chose to search Barclay's life skills, get some better money intel and save up for that new skateboard.
0:22.4	We're helping young people become money confident.
0:25.4	Search Barclay's life skills.
0:27.5	Barclays, make money work for you.
0:35.2	Welcome to She Done It. I'm Caroline Crampton.
0:38.6	And welcome back to Green Penguin Book Club, a series within She Done It that documents my journey of reading and discussing every crime or green title from the main penguin series, In Order.
0:49.8	Our book today is The Documents in the Case by Dorothy El. Sayers and Robert Eustace, Penguin Number 89.
0:58.1	This book was first published in 1930, and then joined the Penguin series in March 1937.
1:04.8	It's Sayers' only full-length novel not to feature her series detective Lord Peter Wimsy,
1:09.8	and her only one to be written with a co-author,
1:12.4	in this case Dr Robert Eustace.
1:14.7	It stands out too because of its format.
1:17.5	This is an epistolary novel, presented as a series of 53 letters, statements and diary extracts,
1:23.7	through which the reader must navigate to understand the story.
1:31.1	Thank you. through which the reader must navigate to understand the story. The action is centred on a suburban villa in Bayswater, West London.
1:35.9	In the lower portion of the house, a married couple, the Harrisons, live with Mrs Harrison's paid companion, Miss Milsome.
1:43.0	Early on, new tenants arrive for the upstairs flat,
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