The Mystery of A.A. Milne

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Why didn’t the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh write more detective fiction? My new book, A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria, is out now. To find out more and get your copy, visit my website carolinecrampton.com/abodymadeofglass. Join the Shedunnit Book Club for two extra Shedunnit episodes a month plus access to the monthly reading discussions and community: shedunnitbookclub.com/join Mentioned in this episode: — When We Were Very Young by AA Milne — Winnie-the-Pooh by AA Milne — The House At Pooh Corner by AA Milne — Mr Pim Passes By by AA Milne — The Red House Mystery by AA Milne — If I May by AA Milne — Bloody Murder by Julian Symons — Trent's Last Case by EC Bentley — The Perfect Alibi by AA Milne — Four Days' Wonder by AA Milne Related Shedunnit episodes: — The Rules (Remastered) — Enter the Watson — The Death of the Country House 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/theaamilnemysterytranscript. 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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0:26.0	There was a bit of a formula to literary success during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.
0:35.0	You wrote one crime novel, it was a hit with readers, and so you wrote lots more.
0:40.0	Some of the most popular writers I discuss on the show are also some of the genre's most prolific
0:45.6	practitioners. From Agatha Christie with her 66 detective novels, to John Dixon Carr with at least 55, ECR Laurac with over 70,
0:55.0	Naioumarsh with 33, and so on.
0:58.0	Anthony Barclay's 20 and Dorothy L. Seers' dozen feel like slight bibliographies by comparison, but even they appear
1:06.2	prolific compared to the writer we're going to meet today, who wrote just one fully-fledged
1:11.8	golden age detective novel.
1:13.4	And yet that one book had an outsize impact.
1:16.4	It ran into over a dozen editions, it attracted attention from the most serious and
1:21.2	severe critics of the genre, and it is still in print today
1:24.8	delighting people over a hundred years after its initial publication.
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