The Murder Mystery Hotline II

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Our golden age detective fiction recommendation line is at your service. 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 Lighthouse by Wilkie Collins— Deathblow Hill by Phoebe Atwood Taylor— The Murder Game by Tom Hindle— Sir John Magill's Last Journey by Freeman Wills Crofts— Man Overboard! by Freeman Wills Crofts— Fatal Venture by Freeman Wills Crofts— Common or Garden Crime by Sheila Pim— Midsummer Malice by Nigel FitzGerald— Death at Crane's Court by Eilís Dillon— The Private Wound by Cecil Day Lewis— A Telegram from Le Touquet by John Bude— "The Easter Parade Mystery" by Rex Stout— Robbery on the Bergen Train by Nordahl Grieg and Nils Lie— "The Episode of the Vanishing Harp" by C Daly King, collected in The Curious Mr Tarrant— "The Case of the Tragedies in the Greek Room" by Sax Rohmer, collected in Miraculous Mysteries— The House Without A Key by Earl Derr Biggers— The Chinese Chop by Juanita Sheridan— The Murder of Mr Ma by John Shen Yen Nee and S. J. Rozan— The Kennel Murder Case by SS Van Dine— "The Adventure of the Western Star" by Agatha Christie— The Chinese Orange Mystery by Ellery Queen 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	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunch break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down
0:23.8	tombola open for fun terms apply 18 plus gambleaware.org
0:29.3	over the almost seven years that i've been making she done, I have seen over and over again that a really considered and specific book recommendation can be a way of demonstrating care and affection.
0:47.3	So many of the lists and suggestions that appear out there in the wider world are general and generic, frequently just picking already popular titles
0:55.8	from a small pool of well-known authors. Those that do try to focus on the period of crime
1:01.3	fiction that I cover, the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, tend not to stray much beyond the obvious
1:06.8	either. As much as I love and revere Agatha Christie, I don't think we need much help
1:11.8	discovering her work at this point. A couple of years ago, I made an episode that sought to marry
1:18.3	these two ideas, showing my appreciation for my most dedicated listeners via very specific
1:23.9	book recommendations, and sharing these with my whole audience, so as to demonstrate
1:29.0	the wide variety of detective fiction that's out there for those who choose to look for it.
1:34.1	The popularity of this period and genre has only continued to grow since.
1:38.6	There have been plenty more reprints and rediscoverys.
1:41.8	And so I think it's only right that I reopen the Murder Mystery Hotline.
2:04.0	Welcome to She Done It. I'm Caroline Crampton. Welcome to She Done It. I'm Caroline Crampton.
2:13.5	Here's how this works.
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