The Challenge of Dorothy L. Sayers

Should detective fiction be easy reading?

• 24 mins

The Elusive Agatha Christie

How well do we really know the queen of crime?

• 40 mins

A Prize Mystery

Could you beat the detective to the solution?

• 33 mins

Queering The Golden Age

What if everything we thought about murder mysteries was wrong?

• 30 mins

The Kidnap of Elizabeth Canning

A dark story connects this 18th century abduction with a 20th century crime novel.

• 30 mins

The Shedunnit Centenary

In which Caroline is the guest, not the host.

• 40 mins

Clerical Crimes

Why do murder mysteries contain so many vicars?

• 30 mins

Howdunnit

Invert everything you think you know about murder mysteries.

• 30 mins

Let It Snow

Snow is a very powerful tool for a detective novelist.

• 25 mins

The Advertising Adventures of Dorothy L. Sayers

She created Lord Peter Wimsey — and also some excellent slogans about mustard.

• 25 mins

The Mysterious Dorothy Bowers

She wrote five successful murder mysteries and then vanished without a trace.

• 20 mins

A Detective's Farewell

How do you say goodbye to a long-running character?

• 20 mins

The Death of the Country House

A most golden age murder.

• 27 mins

The Trials of Madeleine Smith

What if you are found neither innocent nor guilty?

• 30 mins

At Home With Agatha Christie

Come with me on a tour of Greenway.

• 20 mins

The Golden Age Autopsy

Step inside the mortuary.

• 30 mins

Death Under Par

Golf and murder have been close companions for a whole century.

• 30 mins

The Murder Mystery Hotline

If you need a golden age detective fiction recommendation, we are at your service.

• 23 mins

The Evolution of Margery Allingham

The parallel lives of a writer and her detective.

• 25 mins

The Villa Murder

The tragic tale of Alma Rattenbury.

• 30 mins

Miss Marple, Spinster Sleuth

A feminist take on the gossiping busybody of St Mary Mead.

• 30 mins

Meet The Coles

What happens when a couple of socialists decide to write mysteries?

• 30 mins

Editing Offensive Language in Agatha Christie

How do we approach offensive language in texts from previous times?

• 25 mins

Cricket and Crime

Why are crime writers so bowled over by the game?

• 30 mins

Murder in a Heatwave

When the temperature rises, don't lose your cool.

• 30 mins

Murder-on-Sea

Murder does like to be beside the seaside.

• 30 mins

Shedunnit Recommends

What's in the true detective fiction fan's library?

• 25 mins

Knock Knock

Wouldn’t sleuthing be so much easier if the dead could speak to the living?

• 25 mins

Agatha and Plum

Agatha Christie and P.G. Wodehouse had a lot in common.

• 22 mins

Spooky Sleuthing

The supernatural and the rational come together in the murder mystery.

• 20 mins