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New episode! All about Edgar Allen Poe and the afterlife of his creepy pandemic short story The Masque of the Red Death, with special guest @invisible_event. Listen now at https://t.co/EJSIjRZw8t or by search "Shedunnit" in your app. https://t.co/ncWsmchlmF

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For day three of #ShedunnitAdvent, I'm turning to The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley — for me the truly archetypal golden age murder mystery and one that I often recommend to newcomers to the genre.Tis the season to tuck into a box of chocolates as you read... https://t.co/NiPrgN5lmV

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Josephine Tey is getting new editions — these are the @PenguinUKBooks reissues of The Franchise Affair, To Love And Be Wise and The Daughter of Time, out today, with new introductions by Tana French, Kate Mosse and Alexander McCall Smith. What do you think of the new covers? https://t.co/UQWfzxv6Yh

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In the author's note to The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters acknowledges her debt to the work of F. Tennyson Jesse. It's definitely worth picking this one up if The Queen of True Crime episode interested you. Listen now: https://t.co/Fm9aUgLvG1 https://t.co/WVRXfTMCds

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Josephine Tey is getting new editions — these are the @PenguinUKBooks reissues of The Franchise Affair, To Love And Be Wise and The Daughter of Time, out today, with new introductions by Tana French, Kate Mosse and Alexander McCall Smith. What do you think of the new covers? https://t.co/UQWfzxv6Yh

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New episode: the last one of 2021! Guest @pastmortems joins me to talk about what Agatha Christie knew — and didn't know — about what happens to the body after death, as well as why Hercule Poirot's Christmas contains her favourite death: https://t.co/d7iSR4GgG9 https://t.co/hTK0JlGVEJ

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New episode! The last episode of the Queens of Crime at War series is now in your podcast app and at https://t.co/wX0HE60DaR. In this episode, I look at Dorothy L Sayers' life in the late 1930s, and how it came to be that Busman's Honeymoon ended up being her final whodunnit. https://t.co/mzhrDxXsjz

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A great "this edition or that" today — for one of Agatha Christie's most famous novels, Murder on the Orient Express. Do you prefer the typographical design of this Fontana cover or the illustrated movie tie in for the 1974 adaptation with Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot? #go https://t.co/yDTThWUjIb

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New episode! In this one, I look at the story of an infamous Victorian case — known popularly as The Tichborne Claimant — and how it influenced the way golden age detective writers approached questions of identity in their stories. Listen now: https://t.co/EMDBBo8mnk https://t.co/6Ru2CxaYd2

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New episode! It's about Agatha Christie's connection to archaeology, which she experienced via the work of her second husband, Max Mallowan, and that's how we ended up with books like Murder in Mesopotamia, Appointment With Death and others. Listen now: https://t.co/QMyLlNGQgp https://t.co/XSNnzB28zu