Unravelling the mysteries behind classic detective stories
Sounds,·139 episodes
Why aren’t her dozen detective novels better known?
12 Nov 2025,·23 mins
The day the First World War ended, 11 November 1918, marked the beginning of a new era.
05 Nov 2025,·20 mins
A murder mystery can be spooky, too.
29 Oct 2025,·22 mins
What would Peter Wimsey be without Harriet Vane?
22 Oct 2025,·23 mins
How the interwar servant shortage changed detective fiction.
15 Oct 2025,·34 mins
When murder throws everything off the rails.
08 Oct 2025,·25 mins
Do secret societies have any place in murder mysteries?
01 Oct 2025,·23 mins
This is the story of Dr Crippen.
24 Sep 2025,·22 mins
Australian mystery reading duo Flex and Herds join Caroline to look at this whodunnit.
17 Sep 2025,·37 mins
Snobbery and murder, all served up perfectly for you on a silver tray.
10 Sep 2025,·22 mins
A literary device from the golden age of detective fiction is making a comeback.
03 Sep 2025,·32 mins
Why is the Nile a murder mystery location that has bewitched readers for decades?
27 Aug 2025,·26 mins
Getting back in touch with the foremost citizen of St Mary Mead.
20 Aug 2025,·37 mins
Her disappearance captivated the world.
13 Aug 2025,·26 mins,·
Death lurks among the shelves — in crime fiction, that is.
06 Aug 2025,·19 mins
One chilly night in November 1912, the Mutual Admiration Society was formed.
30 Jul 2025,·24 mins
There’s a lot of fun to be had with an epistolary mystery.
23 Jul 2025,·25 mins
It started with dinner and ended with crime writers swearing an oath on a skull.
16 Jul 2025,·25 mins
Kate Jackson joins Caroline to read John Ferguson’s intriguing “Ealing mystery”.
09 Jul 2025,·42 mins
Meet Maud West, a real life lady detective from the golden age of detective fiction.
02 Jul 2025,·19 mins
How crime writers turned pharmaceutical regulations into plot points.
25 Jun 2025,·40 mins
Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. But three times?
18 Jun 2025,·31 mins
Our golden age detective fiction recommendation line is at your service.
11 Jun 2025,·23 mins
How did a legal history series become so well known even Lord Peter Wimsey owned a set?
04 Jun 2025,·19 mins
Because sometimes, only a professional will do.
28 May 2025,·23 mins
She wrote over 70 well-reviewed detective novels, yet disappeared from view. Why?
21 May 2025,·19 mins
Tom Mead joins Caroline to read Edgar Wallace’s 1905 thriller.
14 May 2025,·41 mins
All the best murder mysteries start with a scone laced with arsenic.
07 May 2025,·23 mins
Fact meets fiction in the work of this unjustly overlooked writer.
30 Apr 2025,·30 mins
Who was Ngaio Marsh really?
23 Apr 2025,·19 mins
