Whodunnit?

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

For a couple of decades between the first and second world wars, something mysterious happened. A golden age of detective fiction dawned, and people around the world are still devouring books from this time by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers, Margery Allingham, Anthony Berkeley, Gladys Mitchell, Ngaio Marsh, Josephine Tey and more. In this podcast, Caroline Crampton will be unravelling the mysteries behind such classic detective stories, looking at the social, literary and political context in which these writers worked. If you've ever stayed up late reading under the covers to find out whodunnit, then this podcast is for you. Find the show at shedunnitshow.com, on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram as @ShedunnitShow, and in all major podcast apps. Make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss the first episode. Click here to do that now in your app of choice. You can find a full transcript of this mini episode at shedunnitshow.com/whodunnittranscript. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.0	Geographic restrictions and Ties and Ties and Sies apply 18 plus. For a couple of decades between the first and second world wars. Something mysterious happened. Many things actually. There were
0:36.5	murders in country houses, on golf courses, in Oxford colleges, on trains, in
0:43.0	vicarages, in far-flung parts of the globe
0:45.5	and quaint English villages.
0:47.5	Pistols, daggers, blunt instruments,
0:51.0	and exotic poisons are bounded. No fictional character was safe.
0:56.7	Because these events were all fictional, the plots of novels that flooded the market
1:01.7	in the 1920s and 30s. People couldn't get enough
1:05.8	of all of the inventive ways that writers like Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Seers,
1:10.6	Marjorie Allingham, Anthony Barclay, Gladys Mitchell, Nio Marsh, Josephine Tay and
1:16.4	more could think of for people to die.
1:19.4	This period came to be known as the Golden Age of Detective Fiction and for good reason.
1:24.4	If this all sounds very familiar to you, then you're in the right place.
1:28.9	Welcome to She Doneit.
1:30.9	I'm Caroline Crampton. This golden age of mystery stories coincided with the aftermath of the First World War
1:42.0	when more women were starting to achieve the right
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