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Cricket and Crime

Why are crime writers so bowled over by the game?

Why are crime writers so bowled over by the game?

Thank you to my guests, Dr. Andrew Green and cricket statistician Andy Zaltzman. You can find more cricket-related content and news from Andy by listening to Test Match Special on Â鶹Éç Radio 5, or via his podcast, The Bugle Ashes Urncast.

Mentioned in this episode:
— "The Adventure of the Priory School" by Arthur Conan Doyle, featured in The Return of Sherlock Holmes
— "The Adventure of the Three Students" Arthur Conan Doyle, featured in The Return of Sherlock Holmes
— Sherlock Holmes and the Birth of the Ashes by Arunabha Sengupta
— Sherlock Holmes at the 1902 Test by Stanley Shaw
— Busman’s Honeymoon by Dorothy L Sayers
— Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L Sayers
— The Clues of the Caribbees by TS Stribling
— Blotto, Twinks and the Rodents of the Riviera by Simon Brett
— Murder at School by James Hilton
— "The Guilty Vicarage" by WH Auden
— Alibi Innings by Barbara Worsley-Gough
— Murder Isn't Cricket by E and MA Radford
— The Amazing Test Match Crime by Adrian Arlington
— The Test Match Murder by Alfred Tack
— Death Before Wicket by Nancy Spain
— Death Before Wicket by Kerry Greenwood
— W.G. Grace’s Last Case by Willie Rushton
— Test Kill by Ted Baxter

Related Shedunnit episodes:
— Murder on Holiday
— Death Under Par
— The Advertising Adventures of Dorothy L. Sayers

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Shedunnit is written and narrated by Caroline Crampton and edited by Euan McAleece. Production assistance from Leandra Griffith.

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