You Probably Imagined It!

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Meet the hypochondriacs of golden age detective fiction My new book, A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria, is out now in the UK and published on 24th April in North America. 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 There are some minor spoilers in this episode — no solutions to whodunnits totally revealed, but some plot details discussed. If you want to avoiding knowing such details about something that you're reading or plan to read, please consult the list of books and stories in the episode description before proceeding. Mentioned in this episode: — "The Case of the Perfect Maid" by Agatha Christie — N or M? by Agatha Christie — The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie — Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie — Green for Danger by Christianna Brand — Black Plumes by Margery Allingham — "The Blue Geranium" by Agatha Christie — The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie — Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie — The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie — Fear for Miss Betony by Dorothy Bowers — A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie — 4.50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie — Family Matters by Anthony Rolls — “They Don’t Wear Labels” by E.M. Delafield — Below Suspicion by John Dickson Carr — Blue Murder by Harriet Rutland — Grave Mistake by Ngaio Marsh — Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham — Poison in the Garden Suburb by G.D.H. and Margaret Cole 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/youprobablyimaginedittranscript 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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0:00.0	You know, finding your best summer shouldn't be so hard.
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0:17.2	Visit coke. UK. UK slash app slash summer 2024. Detective novels are all about doubt and certainty and moving from one state to the other.
0:32.0	A murder is committed and the world is plunged into doubt. Who did it? How did they do it? Why did they do it? Can anyone's story about it be trusted? And so on. Gradually over the course of the story, the detective
0:46.7	excavates all of these layers of doubt to leave only the complete certainty of the correct
0:52.1	solution. On the most elemental level
0:55.1	everything exists in a stark binary, innocent and guilty, truth and lies, good and
1:01.4	evil. But what happens when there are characters who exist outside of these clean
1:06.9	absolutes, who live not in this neatly categorized black and white world but amid endless shades of grey,
1:15.0	who are distrusted and misbelieved by default,
1:18.0	all because of their feelings about their health,
1:21.0	long before a murderer steps onto the stage. The people for whom you probably
1:26.3	imagined it is not so much an offer of comfort but a regular refrain. There are far more of these figures than you might expect.
1:35.6	Today we're going to meet the hyper-condriacs of Golden Age Detective Fiction. Welcome to She Dunnet. I'm Caroline Crampton.
1:55.0	A friendly warning. There are going to be some minor spoilers in this episode.
2:00.0	No solutions to Houdonets totally revealed, but some plot details discussed.
2:05.6	If you want to avoid knowing such details about something that you're reading or plan to read,
2:10.4	please consult the list of books and stories in the episode description before proceeding. First, I think it would be good to establish what we mean by hyperchondria.
2:28.0	Even though, I think it's a word that gets used much more widely and frequently than its now archaic status would indicate.
2:35.9	The dictionary definition of the word is something like a mental condition characterized by the persistent
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