Unravelling the mysteries behind classic detective stories.
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Martin Edwards joins Caroline to revisit this icon of golden age detective fiction.
What connects a notorious 1827 murder case with the Detection Club’s cosy Soho clubrooms?
Open wide! What could possibly go wrong?
Beware the pipe organ.
Dolores Gordon-Smith joins Caroline to read this short story collection by H.C. Bailey.
Which matters more in a murder mystery, plot or character?
During Prohibition, the cocktails are downright criminal.
CriminOlly joins Caroline to read this classic of American hardboiled crime fiction.
There’s something sinister in the stacks.
The great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas had a passion for detective stories.
Why didn’t the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh write more detective fiction?
John Curran joins Caroline to read Christie’s third novel, her first green penguin.
A portrait of a writer via her addresses.
Meet the hypochondriacs of golden age detective fiction
A scientific murder mystery.
The crime fiction of Lucy Beatrice Malleson deserves to be better known.
Helen Zaltzman is the guest for this dissection of the first green penguin.
One visit to Agatha Christie changed everything.
A conversation about how Shedunnit is made.
Time travelling, murder mystery style.
Renée read her first detective novel in the 1930s. She hasn’t stopped since.
Not every mystery needs a murder.
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Private members’ clubs are surprisingly popular with corpses.
How Adelaide Bartlett got away with murder.
The supernatural and the rational come together in the murder mystery.
Agatha Christie and P.G. Wodehouse had a lot in common.
Wouldn’t sleuthing be so much easier if the dead could speak to the living?
What's in the true detective fiction fan's library?
Murder does like to be beside the seaside.
