The Missing Moneylender (Green Penguin Book Club 7)

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Moira Redmond joins Caroline to consider a surprising medical mystery from 1931. No major plot spoilers until you hear Caroline say we are "entering the spoiler zone", at 19:39. 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 Raffles by E.W. Hornung. Join the Shedunnit Book Club for two extra Shedunnit episodes a month plus access to the monthly reading discussions and community: shedunnitbookclub.com/join. Reviews for The Missing Moneylender: — Martin Edwards — Beneath the Stains of Time — Vintage Pop Fictions Books mentioned in this episode: — The Missing Moneylender by W. Stanley Sykes — Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie — The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie — The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers — The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley — The Ray of Doom by W. Stanley Sykes — The Harness of Death by W. Stanley Sykes — Essays on the First Hundred Years of Anaesthesia by W. Stanley Sykes — "The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey" by Dorothy L. Sayers — A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie — "Before Insulin" by J.J. Connington — The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace — The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas — Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers — Mr Fortune, Please by H.C. Bailey — Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie — Raffles by E.W. Hornung Past Shedunnit Green Penguin episodes: — The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Green Penguin Book Club 1) — The Murder on the Links (Green Penguin Book Club 2) — The Thin Man (Green Penguin Book Club 3) — Mr Fortune, Please (Green Penguin Book Club 4) — The Poisoned Chocolates Case (Green Penguin Book Club 5) — The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Green Penguin Book Club 6) 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/themissingmoneylendertranscript 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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0:35.1	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.
0:53.7	Our book today is one I'm guessing will be new to the majority of listeners, as it was to me.
0:59.1	The Missing Money Lender by W. Stanley Sykes, Penguin 62.
1:03.7	This is an interesting book with which to kick off my second year of reading and discussing
1:07.9	the Green Penguins. In the first year, we had some really popular and well-known titles, two Agatha Christie's,
1:14.6	The Murder on the Links and the Mysterious Affair at Stiles, as well as a Dorothy Alsayers
1:19.4	and Anthony Barclay's The Poisoned Chocolate's Case.
1:22.7	Looking ahead to what's coming up in year two, I feel like the series goes through a patch
1:27.1	of books and writers
1:28.1	that haven't held on to their popularity in quite the same way. So we're in for a few more
1:32.8	surprises, and hopefully at least a couple of mystery masterpieces right for rediscovery.
1:41.3	The Missing Money Lender by W. Stanley Sykes was first published in 1931 to considerable success and critical acclaim.
1:49.4	It was the author's first novel, and he would go on to publish two more,
1:53.7	The Ray of Doom in 1932 and The Harness of Death in 1935,
1:59.0	before devoting the rest of his life to his professional research as a doctor
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