The Murders in Praed Street (Green Penguin Book Club 15)

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Caroline Crampton

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🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Ronaldo Fagarazzi joins Caroline for a 1920s serial killer mystery. No major plot spoilers until you hear Caroline say we are "entering the spoiler zone", at 21:21. After that, expect full spoilers. Read more about John Rhode at Ronaldo's blog, witnesstothecrime.wordpress.com. A full list of titles in the Penguin series can be found at penguinfirsteditions.com. The next book discussed in this series will be Mr Justice Raffles by E.W. Hornung. 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:— Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers— The Murders in Praed Street by John Rhode— Bloody Murder by Julian Symons— Dead Men at the Folly by John Rhode— The Secret of High Eldersham by Miles Burton— Devil's Reckoning by Miles Burton— The Thinking Machine by Jacques Futrelle— Hendon's First Case by John Rhode— Death in the Tunnel by Miles Burton— The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes— The Silk Stocking Murders by Anthony Berkeley— Murder Gone Mad by Philip MacDonald— Some Must Watch by Ethel Lina White— The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie— The Case of the Monday Murders by Christopher Bush— Howard's End by E.M. Forster— The Paddington Mystery by John Rhode— Dr Priestley's Quest by John Rhode— The Mystery of Angelina Frood by R. Austin Freeman— The Aluminium Dagger by R. Austin Freeman— The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White— Green for Danger by Christianna Brand Related Shedunnit episodes:— The Telephone Call— The Detection Club 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	Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back.
0:05.0	Mom!
0:06.0	Up the stairs for something.
0:08.0	Ugh, back down, no idea what I went up for.
0:12.0	Mom, what's for dinner?
0:14.0	Chop, sizzle, done.
0:17.0	Hello Fresh can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier.
0:23.4	So it's phones down, forks up.
0:25.5	Hello Fresh. Bring back dinner time.
0:32.6	Welcome to She Done It. I'm Caroline Grampton.
0:36.4	And welcome back to Green Penguin Book Club, a series within She Done It. I'm Caroline Grampton. And welcome back to Green Penguin Book Club,
0:39.5	a series within She Done It that documents my journey of reading and discussing every crime or green
0:44.5	title from the main penguin series, In Order. Our book today is The Murders in Prade Street by
0:50.9	John Road, Penguin Number 98.
0:59.9	This book was first published in 1928 and then joined the Green Penguin series in June 1937.
1:01.9	It was the fourth novel to feature Rhodes' recurring detective Dr. Lancelot Priestley, a mathematics
1:07.3	professor who, as you will hear, starts out in the early books as a forensic investigator in the mould of R. Austin Freeman's Dr. Thorndyke,
1:15.7	and then later develops into more of an armchair consulting detective over the course of the more than 70 novels in which he appears.
1:24.3	As the title suggests, the murders in Prade Street focuses on a series of killings that take place in and around Praid Street in West London, a thoroughfare near Paddington Station.
1:35.5	Several of the victims run businesses on the street or in its immediate vicinity, and the ability of the murderer to strike repeatedly in the same area causes great alarm in the neighbourhood,
1:45.7	as well as a lot of press coverage.
1:48.4	Dr Priestley is drawn into the case when his Scotland Yard associate, Inspector Hanslett, comes to him for advice.
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