Shedunnit Episodes Episode guide
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Young Sleuths
Young detectives and readers play a vital part in the history of detective fiction.
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You Probably Imagined It!
Meet the hypochondriacs of golden age detective fiction
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Whodunnit Centenary: 1924
Time travelling, murder mystery style.
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Who Was Robert Eustace?
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
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Welcome to Shedunnit
Unravelling the mysteries behind classic detective stories.
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Vanishing Corpses
Where did that dead body go? It was right there!
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The Whodunnit in India
India has a long and deep tradition of storytelling and mythology 鈥斅燼nd now mysteries.
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The Villa Murder
The tragic tale of Alma Rattenbury.
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The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
Helen Zaltzman is the guest for this dissection of the first green penguin.
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The Trials of Madeleine Smith
What if you are found neither innocent nor guilty?
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The Tichborne Claimant
Detective fiction is obsessed with identity. This Victorian legal case is the reason why.
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The Thin Man
CriminOlly joins Caroline to read this classic of American hardboiled crime fiction.
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The Theatrical World of Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie was the most successful female playwright of all time.
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The Tea Leaf
A scientific murder mystery.
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The Shedunnit Centenary
In which Caroline is the guest, not the host.
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The Red Barn Murder
What connects a notorious 1827 murder case with the Detection Club鈥檚 cosy Soho clubrooms?
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The Queen of True Crime
F. Tennyson Jesse created a way of telling crime stories that still influences us today.
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The Poisoned Chocolates Case
Martin Edwards joins Caroline to revisit this icon of golden age detective fiction.
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The Pimlico Poisoning Mystery
How Adelaide Bartlett got away with murder.
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The People's Pathologist
Before there was CSI, there was Bernard Spilsbury.
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The Nobodies
Clerks, shop assistants, secretaries 鈥斅爓hy do detectives always overlook them?
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The Mysterious Dorothy Bowers
She wrote five successful murder mysteries and then vanished without a trace.
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Kathryn Harkup and Caroline reconsider Agatha Christe鈥檚 very first detective novel.
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The Murderless Christmas Mystery
Not every mystery needs a murder.
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The Murder on the Links
John Curran joins Caroline to read Christie鈥檚 third novel, her first green penguin.
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The Murder Mystery Hotline
If you need a golden age detective fiction recommendation, we are at your service.
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The Murder At Road Hill House
This sensational case from 1860 ignited a wave of detective fever.
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The Many Afterlives of Hercule Poirot
"There aren鈥檛 many characters who are recognisable just from a silhouette. "
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The Long Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe
The grandfather of detective fiction still has a lot to teach us.
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The Lifelong Fan
Ren茅e read her first detective novel in the 1930s. She hasn鈥檛 stopped since.