A Prize Mystery

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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