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A Century of Whodunnits

Reading through the twentieth century, one murder mystery at a time.

Reading through the twentieth century, one murder mystery at a time.

Books mentioned:
— The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (1905)
— Trent's Last Case by E.C. Bentley (1913)
— The Cask by Freeman Wills Crofts (1920)
— The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers (1934)
— Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie (1943)
— Death in Captivity by Michael Gilbert (1952)
— From Doon With Death by Ruth Rendell (1964)
— Death of an Expert Witness by P.D. James (1977)
— Appleby and the Ospreys by Michael Innes (1986)
— Black and Blue by Ian Rankin (1997)
— The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books by Martin Edwards
— Bloody Murder: from the Detective Story to the Crime Novel by Julian Symons

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Shedunnit is written and narrated by Caroline Crampton and edited by Euan MacAleece.

Release date:

5 months left to listen

28 minutes