The Golden Age Autopsy

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Step inside the mortuary. Thanks to my guest, Carla Valentine, for joining me. Her book, Murder Isn't Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie, has lots more on this subject, as does her previous appearance on Shedunnit, Murder Isn't Easy. Mentioned in the episode: — Murder Isn't Easy by Carla Valentine — The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie — The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie — 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie — Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers — "The Lernean Hydra" by Agatha Christie, featured in The Labours of Hercules — Notable Trials books (Shedunnit episode on the subject linked below) — One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie Related Shedunnit episodes: — Murder Isn't Easy — Notable Trials NB: Links to Blackwell's are affiliate links, meaning that the podcast receives a small commission when you purchase a book there (the price remains the same for you). Blackwell's is a UK bookselling chain that ships internationally at no extra charge. 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, 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/thegoldenageautopsytranscript 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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0:24.0	Golden age detective fiction has a tendency to skip over the corpse.
0:34.0	Important as it is to the story.
0:36.0	One of the defining features of crime fiction
0:39.0	from that period between the first and second world wars
0:43.0	is its lack of description of the consequences of murder.
0:47.0	Characters react to a victim's death of course
0:50.0	but that detailed mortuary scene that we're so familiar with
0:54.0	from modern police procedures is generally absent.
0:58.0	And that's what a lot of people like about the books from this time.
1:01.0	They're not full of talk about gore and wounds and stomach contents
1:05.0	and all of that kind of thing.
1:08.0	But even in the 1920s,
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