The Man in the Dark (Green Penguin Book Club 10)

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Golden age expert Kate Jackson joins Caroline to read John Ferguson’s intriguing “Ealing mystery”. No major plot spoilers until you hear Caroline say we are "entering the spoiler zone", at 15:33. 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 Trent's Last Case by E.C. Bentley. 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 Man in the Dark by John Ferguson— Stealthy Terror by John Ferguson— Death of Mr Dodsley by John Ferguson— Night in Glengyle by John Ferguson— Death Comes to Perigord by John Ferguson— The Pocket Detective by Kate Jackson— How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel by Kate Jackson— The Grouse Moor Mystery by John Ferguson— London Particular by Christianna Brand— The Port of London Murders by Josephine Bell— QED by Lynn Brock— Don't Open the Door by Anthony Gilbert— Murder In Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie— The Woman in Red by Anthony Gilbert— Murder Isn't Easy by Richard Hull— Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie— The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L Sayers— The White Cottage Mystery by Margery Allingham— The Mystery of the Peacock's Eye by Brian Flynn— The Murder of Mrs Davenport by Anthony Gilbert— Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles— The Havering Plot by Richard Keverne— Matorni's Vineyard by E. Phillips Oppenheim— The Professor's Poison by Neil Gordon— The Emerald Tiger by Edgar Jepson— The Fatal Kiss Mystery by Rufus King— Mystery at Lynden Sands by JJ Connington— Deep Lake Mystery by Carolyn Wells— The Factory on the Cliff by A.G. Macdonell— Trent's Last Case by E.C. Bentley 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I had the absolute pleasure of speaking to Pamela Anderson.
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0:35.0	Welcome to She Done It. I'm Caroline Crampton.
0:38.8	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.
0:50.3	Our book today is The Man in the Dark by John Ferguson, Penguin Number 65.
0:58.3	John Ferguson is not as well known an author as some I've covered in the past, so I thought I'd start by introducing him.
1:05.4	He was born in Callender, a small town to the north of Stirling in Scotland in 1871.
1:11.1	He worked on the railways before becoming an ordained Episcopalian minister.
1:15.7	This saw him posted variously to Dundee, Glasgow and Guernsey,
1:19.6	the latter place later becoming the setting for two of his novels.
1:23.1	In the years running up to the First World War,
1:25.2	he had some success as a playwright focusing on historical
1:28.2	Scottish subjects. During the war, he served as chaplain at a school near Fokston in Kent,
1:33.8	which is a location in The Man in the Dark that you'll hear more about later in the episode.
1:38.1	It was also the basis for his first full-length novel, Stealthy Terror, which was published in
1:42.8	1918.
1:44.8	The Man in the Dark was his fourth book and appeared in 1928.
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