The Long Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe

05/18/22 • 35 min

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

To support the podcast, be part of a superb bookish community, and get two bonus episodes a month, become a member of the Shedunnit Book Club now at shedunnitbookclub.com/join.

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

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