The Whodunnit in India

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

India has a long and deep tradition of storytelling and mythology. What happens when this heritage is combined with the tropes of golden age detective fiction? Thanks to my guest R.V. Raman. His first whodunnit is A Will To Kill and you can find more information about upcoming books in his Harith Athreya series at rvraman.com. To be the first to know about future developments with the podcast, sign up for the newsletter at shedunnitshow.com/newsletter. Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/thewhodunnitinindiatranscript. 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. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome friends, welcome to Frootellers Halloween Hotel.
0:04.1	As we begin an eerie countdown with our spooky clear-and-tell.
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0:27.0	Ha ha ha ha!
0:30.0	Welcome to She Done It.
0:36.5	I'm Caroline Crampton.
0:39.5	An endlessly fascinating aspect of the golden age of detective fiction
0:44.0	is its identification with a certain kind of Britishness.
0:48.8	Many of the authors who are widely read from the genre's heyday
0:52.3	in the 1920s and 1930s were either from the UK
0:56.5	or were based here for some of the time that they were writing.
1:00.6	As such, a certain amount of that context
1:03.2	came to be strongly identified with these books.
1:06.8	But at the same time, the likes of Ag the Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers,
1:10.5	John Dixon Carr, Marjorie Allingham and others
1:13.1	had readers all around the world.
1:15.4	And the international fan base for mystery fiction
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