Unravelling the mysteries behind classic detective stories
Sounds,·143 episodes
Open wide! What could possibly go wrong?
04 Sep 2024,·23 mins
Beware the pipe organ.
21 Aug 2024,·21 mins
Dolores Gordon-Smith joins Caroline to read this short story collection by H.C. Bailey.
07 Aug 2024,·59 mins
Which matters more in a murder mystery, plot or character?
24 Jul 2024,·22 mins
During Prohibition, the cocktails are downright criminal.
10 Jul 2024,·63 mins
CriminOlly joins Caroline to read this classic of American hardboiled crime fiction.
26 Jun 2024,·49 mins
There’s something sinister in the stacks.
19 Jun 2024,·53 mins,·
The great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas had a passion for detective stories.
29 May 2024,·38 mins
Why didn’t the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh write more detective fiction?
22 May 2024,·22 mins
John Curran joins Caroline to read Christie’s third novel, her first green penguin.
01 May 2024,·53 mins
A portrait of a writer via her addresses.
24 Apr 2024,·24 mins
Meet the hypochondriacs of golden age detective fiction
11 Apr 2024,·23 mins
A scientific murder mystery.
21 Mar 2024,·41 mins
The crime fiction of Lucy Beatrice Malleson deserves to be better known.
06 Mar 2024,·26 mins
Helen Zaltzman is the guest for this dissection of the first green penguin.
21 Feb 2024,·61 mins,·
One visit to Agatha Christie changed everything.
07 Feb 2024,·28 mins
A conversation about how Shedunnit is made.
24 Jan 2024,·46 mins
Time travelling, murder mystery style.
10 Jan 2024,·26 mins
Renée read her first detective novel in the 1930s. She hasn’t stopped since.
27 Dec 2023,·23 mins
Not every mystery needs a murder.
13 Dec 2023,·22 mins
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
29 Nov 2023,·25 mins
Private members’ clubs are surprisingly popular with corpses.
15 Nov 2023,·22 mins
How Adelaide Bartlett got away with murder.
01 Nov 2023,·30 mins,·
The supernatural and the rational come together in the murder mystery.
18 Oct 2023,·20 mins
Agatha Christie and P.G. Wodehouse had a lot in common.
04 Oct 2023,·22 mins
Wouldn’t sleuthing be so much easier if the dead could speak to the living?
20 Sep 2023,·25 mins
What's in the true detective fiction fan's library?
06 Sep 2023,·25 mins
Murder does like to be beside the seaside.
23 Aug 2023,·30 mins
When the temperature rises, don't lose your cool.
09 Aug 2023,·30 mins
Why are crime writers so bowled over by the game?
26 Jul 2023,·30 mins
