Shedunnit Episodes Episode guide
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The Kidnap of Elizabeth Canning
A dark story connects this 18th century abduction with a 20th century crime novel.
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The Honkaku Mysteries
Exploring the thriving tradition of classic Japanese whodunnits.
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The Green Penguin
One visit to Agatha Christie changed everything.
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The Golden Age Autopsy
Step inside the mortuary.
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The First Whodunnit
What was the first murder mystery, really?
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The Evolution of Margery Allingham
The parallel lives of a writer and her detective.
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The Elusive Agatha Christie
How well do we really know the queen of crime?
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The Detective's Best Friend
Join me for a long-awaited guided tour of the role that dogs play in detective fiction.
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The Death of the Country House
A most golden age murder.
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The Dark Side of True Crime
What if thinking and talking about real life murders was not good for us?
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The Challenge of Dorothy L. Sayers
Should detective fiction be easy reading?
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The Advertising Adventures of Dorothy L. Sayers
She created Lord Peter Wimsey — and also some excellent slogans about mustard.
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The A.A. Milne Mystery
Why didn’t the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh write more detective fiction?
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Swan Song
How do you say goodbye to a beloved detective?
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Spooky Sleuthing
The supernatural and the rational come together in the murder mystery.
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Shedunnit Recommends
What's in the true detective fiction fan's library?
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Queering The Golden Age
What if everything we thought about murder mysteries was wrong?
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Policing The Detectives
Is it possible to write a whodunnit and leave out the police?
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Ngaio Marsh Goes Home
WW2 forced this queen of crime to become better acquainted with her homeland.
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Mysterious Knitting
How to weave the perfect murder mystery plot.
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Murder-on-Sea
Murder does like to be beside the seaside.
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Murder Isn't Easy
How much did Agatha Christie really know about dead bodies?
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Murder in the Library
There’s something sinister in the stacks.
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Murder in a Heatwave
When the temperature rises, don't lose your cool.
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Mr Fortune, Please
Dolores Gordon-Smith joins Caroline to read this short story collection by H.C. Bailey.
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Miss Marple, Spinster Sleuth
A feminist take on the gossiping busybody of St Mary Mead.
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Meet The Coles
What happens when a couple of socialists decide to write mysteries?
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Margery Allingham Waits For The Invasion
For Albert Campion's creator, WW2 was her salvation.
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Lucy, Anthony and Anne
The crime fiction of Lucy Beatrice Malleson deserves to be better known.
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Looking East
Expanding the horizons of golden age detective fiction.