The Tea Leaf

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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A scientific murder mystery. My new book, A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria, is published in April. To find out more and register for the exclusive pre-order bonus material, visit my website carolinecrampton.com. 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: — "The Tea Leaf" by Robert Eustace and Edgar Jepson Related Shedunnit Episodes: — Who Was Robert Eustace? 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/thetealeaftranscript 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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0:24.3	Capital at risk internet banking customers only, account fees and charges apply. Welcome to She Dunnet. I'm Caroline Crampton. A reminder before we begin that my new book A Body Made of Glass
0:44.4	comes out very soon in April just a few short weeks away and that I'm doing an
0:49.4	exclusive online launch on the 10th of April that you're all invited to. I hope it's going to be a good
0:54.7	opportunity to chat and for me to answer your questions, including ones arising from this
0:59.1	podcast. To find out more and sign up for it, head to Caroline Crampton.com or the link in the description of this episode.
1:07.0	Today on the podcast, I'm breaking the format a little bit.
1:11.0	Sometimes I find it hard to let a topic go once I've published an installment of She
1:15.6	done it about it. And never has this been more true than with the Who Was Robert Eustace
1:21.6	episode from November 2023? I got extremely into researching Eustace, who was this elusive early 20th century doctor who also moonlighted as a crime co-writer for two of my favorite authors to study,
1:35.8	L. T. Mead and Dorothy L. Sayers.
1:38.5	And I haven't really stopped researching him.
1:41.4	Even though the episode I was making has been out for four months at this point, and I have new subjects to look into for future episodes.
1:48.5	I'm still trying to track down and read as much of his fiction as I can, and in the process of doing so I came across what I think might be one of my favorite crime fiction short stories ever.
2:00.0	And so I'm going to share it with you today in the hope of inducting a few more people into my Robert
2:04.8	Eustace obsession.
2:06.4	The story in question is from 1925, and it was co-written by Robert Eustace with Edgar Jepson.
2:12.6	Jepson was a journalist and a writer who is probably best known today for his translations
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