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There’s a dark story connecting this 18th century abduction with a 20th century crime novel.

Thanks to my guest, Tana French. The new Penguin edition of The Franchise Affair, which includes her introduction, is available now. And Tana's own latest novel is The Searcher, now available in paperback.

This episode contains minor spoilers for The Franchise Affair.

Mentioned in this episode:

— The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey

— Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

— Amelia by Henry Fielding

— The Canning Wonder by Arthur Machen

— Elizabeth is Missing by Lillian de la Torre

— The Canning Enigma by John Treherne

— The Appearance of Truth: The Story of Elizabeth Canning and 18th Century Narrative by Judith Moore

— Josephine Tey: A Life by Jennifer Morag Henderson

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Could you beat the detective to the solution?

This live episode of Shedunnit was recorded at the 2022 International Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay.

Mentioned in this episode:

— The Wintringham Mystery by Anthony Berkeley

— The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

— The Mystery of Norman's Court by John Chancellor

— The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie

— The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie

— Bleak House by Charles Dickens

— The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie

— The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace

— Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

— The Clocks by Agatha Christie

— The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

— Memories and Adventures by Arthur Conan Doyle

— Murder in Rockwater by Margot Neville

— Murder of Olympia by Margot Neville

— Forever England by Alison Light

— “The Decline and Fall of the Detection Story” by W. Somerset Maugham collected in The Vagrant Mood

— “Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?” by Edmund Wilson in The New Yorker (20 June 1945)

— “Manx Gold” by Agatha Christie collected in While The Light Lasts

— Not To Be Taken by Anthony Berkeley

— Death in the House by Anthony Berkeley

— "Mr Cork's Secret” by MacDonald Hastings collected in Crimson Snow

— The Crime of the Century by Kingsley Amis

— Cain's Jawbone by E. Powys Mathers, aka Torquemada

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The grandfather of detective fiction still has a lot to teach us.

Many thanks to my guest, Jim Noy. You can find out more about his work at his blog, theinvisibleevent.com. His book The Red Death Murders is available only from Amazon worldwide (link for UK; link for US).

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Books mentioned:

— The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe

— The Red Death Murders by Jim Noy

— The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

— "The Red-Headed League" by Arthur Conan Doyle collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

— Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

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F. Tennyson Jesse created a way of telling crime stories that still influences us today.

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Books mentioned and sources consulted: Books mentioned:

— Murder and Its Motives by F. Tennyson Jesse

— "The Mask" by F. Tennyson Jesse

— The Sword of Deborah by F. Tennyson Jesse

— The Trial of Madeleine Smith by F. Tennyson Jesse

— The Trial of Rattenbury and Stoner by F. Tennyson Jesse

— A Pin To See The Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse

— Comments on Cain by F. Tennyson Jesse

— Crime Writing in Interwar Britain by Victoria Stewart

— A Portrait of Fryn by Joanna Colenbrander

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A good detective story has a recognisable rhythm and plot points. But how did these tropes come about? And what happens when you break the rules?

This episode of Shedunnit was first released in February 2019 and is repeated here in a rerecorded and remastered version.

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Books and articles mentioned in order of appearance:

—The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne

—T. S. Eliot on detective fiction

—The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

— S. S. van Dine’s “Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories”

—Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers

—The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie

—Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers

—Ronald Knox’s Decalogue

—The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards

—Busman’s Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers

—The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr

—The Eye in the Museum by J. J. Connington

—The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

— "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?” by Edmund Wilson

—Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie

—The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham

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