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If you can solve a crossword, you can solve a murder.

Thanks to my guest, Hamish Symington. You can find out more about his work at hamishsymington.com.

Books mentioned:
— Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars by Alison Light
— ""Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?"" by Edmund Wilson, first published in the New Yorker on 20 January 1945
— The Crossword Mysteries by Nero Blanc
— ""The Fascinating Problem of Uncle Meleager's Will"" in Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers
— Crossword Mystery by E.R. Punshon
— Close Quarters by Michael Gilbert
— ""The Clue"" in Two Bottles of Relish: The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories by Lord Dunsany
— A Six Letter Word For Death by Patricia Moyes
— Last Puzzle and Testament by Parnell Hall
—Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures With Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel
—""Clues: Crosswords and Detective Stories"" by John Curran in Crime and Detective Stories 79, December 2018
—Cracking Cryptic Crosswords by Colin Dexter
— Two episodes of The Allusionist podcast about crosswords: #8 Crosswords and #62: In Crypt, Decrypt

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