The Great Gladys

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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On Philip Larkin, a reptilian sleuth with a mellifluous voice, and a small amount of witchcraft. Find links to all the books and sources mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/thegreatgladys. Special thanks today to my guest Lee Randall. You can follow her on Twitter @randallwrites and read her writing about Gladys Mitchell here. 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/bookclub. Books and sources: —"Rediscovering Gladys Mitchell" by Lee Randall on Bookslut —"Open that window, Miss Menzies" by Patricia Craig in the London Review of Books —Philip Larkin on Gladys Mitchell in the Observer —On the Philip Larkin Collection in the British Library —Interview with Gladys Mitchell by B.A. Pike in the Armchair Detective, October 1976 —Speedy Death by Gladys Mitchell —Brought to Book: Philip Larkin and His Bibliographer by B.C. Bloomfield —Here Lies Gloria Mundy by Gladys Mitchell —Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers —The Devil at Saxon Wall by Gladys Mitchell —When Last I Died by Gladys Mitchell —Printer's Error by Gladys Mitchell —Brazen Tongue by Gladys Mitchell —Sleuth's Alchemy by Gladys Mitchell —Nest of Vipers by Gladys Mitchell —Here Comes a Chopper by Gladys Mitchell —Hangman's Curfew by Gladys Mitchell —Spotted Hemlock by Gladys Mitchell —Watson's Choice by Gladys Mitchell —The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop by Gladys Mitchell 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/thegreatgladystranscript. 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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0:08.0	Well, this is interesting.
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0:15.0	Everything from CSI.
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0:17.0	To police intercepts.
0:18.0	Police in the dog.
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0:21.0	dedicated to the crime shows you love.
0:23.4	That's what I do.
0:25.4	The world be easy.
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0:28.8	Pluto TV. There's a tendency sometimes to think of detective fiction from the early 20th century as cozy.
0:42.0	In fact, in some countries the phrase cozy mystery even serves as a
0:47.8	semi-official sub-genre of crime writing, especially in America where it's defined against the so-called hard-boiled stories of writers
0:56.8	like Raymond Chandler and Dashil Hammett. I don't personally subscribe to the belief that there's any such thing as a cozy murder mystery
1:10.0	since even the most bloodless and genteel who done it is still about the hunt for a violent killer.
1:16.0	But it is certainly true that some writers from the Golden Age of Detective fiction between the two world wars created characters who were a little more
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