All At Sea

03/04/20 • 20 min

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Shedunnit

What could be a better place for a murder than a boat, out at sea?

Find links to all the books and sources mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/allatsea.

Get a copy of my book, The Way to the Sea, from Blackwell’s here or request it at your local bookshop or library.

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Books and sources:

—Several of the short stories I mentioned are collected in Deep Waters: Mysteries on the Waves from the British Library

—And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

—Singing in the Shrouds by Ngaio Marsh

—Nine – And Death Makes Ten by Carter Dickson

—The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie

—"Four Friends and Death" by Christopher St John Sprigg

—"Man Overboard" by Edmund Crispin

—"The Blood Stained Pavement" by Agatha Christie

—Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

—The Plague Court Murders by Carter Dickson

—"Bullion!" by William Hope Hodgson

—"The Thimble River Mystery" by Josephine Bell

—The Floating Admiral by the Detection Club

—Fatal Venture by Freeman Wills Crofts

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What could be a better place for a murder than a boat, out at sea?

Find links to all the books and sources mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/allatsea.

Get a copy of my book, The Way to the Sea, from Blackwell’s here or request it at your local bookshop or library.

Become a member of the Shedunnit book club and get bonus audio, listen to ad free episodes and join a book-loving community at shedunnitshow.com/bookclub.

Books and sources:

—Several of the short stories I mentioned are collected in Deep Waters: Mysteries on the Waves from the British Library

—And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

—Singing in the Shrouds by Ngaio Marsh

—Nine – And Death Makes Ten by Carter Dickson

—The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie

—"Four Friends and Death" by Christopher St John Sprigg

—"Man Overboard" by Edmund Crispin

—"The Blood Stained Pavement" by Agatha Christie

—Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

—The Plague Court Murders by Carter Dickson

—"Bullion!" by William Hope Hodgson

—"The Thimble River Mystery" by Josephine Bell

—The Floating Admiral by the Detection Club

—Fatal Venture by Freeman Wills Crofts

To be the first to know about future developments with the podcast, sign up for the newsletter at shedunnitshow.com/newsletter.

Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/allatseatranscript.

Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details.

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Previous Episode

The Pale Horse

How Agatha Christie’s spooky story inspired real life murderers and detectives.

A friendly warning: there are major spoilers for The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie in this episode.

Find links to all the books and sources mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/thepalehorse.

Special thanks today to my guests Kathryn Harkup and Sarah Phelps. Kathryn’s book is A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie and she’s on Twitter @RotwangsRobot. Sarah’s adaptation of The Pale Horse is available in the UK on BBC iPlayer and in the US on Amazon Prime from 13 March. She’s on Twitter @PhelpsieSarah. Also, I’m indebted to Nick Hilton of Podot Pods for his recording assistance.

Become a member of the Shedunnit book club and get bonus audio, listen to ad free episodes and join a book-loving community at shedunnitshow.com/bookclub.

Books and sources:

—The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie

—Final Curtain by Ngaio Marsh

—"How Agatha Christie mystery The Pale Horse may have inspired a murderer" by Kathryn Harkup for the Guardian

—A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn Harkup

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Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/thepalehorsetranscript.

Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details.

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Next Episode

Happily Ever After

What would Peter Wimsey be without Harriet Vane?

Find links to all the books and sources mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/happilyeverafter.

Become a member of the Shedunnit book club and get bonus audio, listen to ad free episodes and join a book-loving community at shedunnitshow.com/bookclub.

Books and sources:

—"Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories" by SS Van Dine

—Ronald Knox’s Decalogue

—Till Death Do Us Part by John Dickson Carr

—The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

—The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

—N or M? by Agatha Christie

—By The Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie

—Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie

—The Big Four by Agatha Christie

—"The Capture of Cerberus" from The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie

—Artists in Crime by Ngaio Marsh