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Invert everything you think you know about murder mysteries.
Let It Snow
Snow is a very powerful tool for a detective novelist.
The Advertising Adventures of Dorothy L. Sayers
She created Lord Peter Wimsey 鈥 and also some excellent slogans about mustard.
The Mysterious Dorothy Bowers
She wrote five successful murder mysteries and then vanished without a trace.
A Detective's Farewell
How do you say goodbye to a long-running character?
The Death of the Country House
A most golden age murder.
The Trials of Madeleine Smith
What if you are found neither innocent nor guilty?
At Home With Agatha Christie
Come with me on a tour of Greenway.
The Golden Age Autopsy
Step inside the mortuary.
Death Under Par
Golf and murder have been close companions for a whole century.
The Murder Mystery Hotline
If you need a golden age detective fiction recommendation, we are at your service.
The Evolution of Margery Allingham
The parallel lives of a writer and her detective.
The Villa Murder
The tragic tale of Alma Rattenbury.
Miss Marple, Spinster Sleuth
A feminist take on the gossiping busybody of St Mary Mead.
Meet The Coles
What happens when a couple of socialists decide to write mysteries?
Editing Offensive Language in Agatha Christie
How do we approach offensive language in texts from previous times?
Cricket and Crime
Why are crime writers so bowled over by the game?
Murder in a Heatwave
When the temperature rises, don't lose your cool.
Murder-on-Sea
Murder does like to be beside the seaside.
Shedunnit Recommends
What's in the true detective fiction fan's library?
Knock Knock
Wouldn鈥檛 sleuthing be so much easier if the dead could speak to the living?
Agatha and Plum
Agatha Christie and P.G. Wodehouse had a lot in common.
Spooky Sleuthing
The supernatural and the rational come together in the murder mystery.
The Pimlico Poisoning Mystery
How Adelaide Bartlett got away with murder.
Death at the Club
Private members鈥 clubs are surprisingly popular with corpses.
Who Was Robert Eustace?
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
The Murderless Christmas Mystery
Not every mystery needs a murder.
The Lifelong Fan
Ren茅e read her first detective novel in the 1930s. She hasn鈥檛 stopped since.
Whodunnit Centenary: 1924
Time travelling, murder mystery style.
A Reading Life
A conversation about how Shedunnit is made.
The Green Penguin
One visit to Agatha Christie changed everything.