Last year Caroline Crampton (of Shedunnit) and I teamed up to create a joint live show, called Words Dunnit: a 200-year history of detective fiction in an hour. We performed the show live at the Dublin Podcast Festival in November 2019, and then again at Pod UK, in Birmingham, in Feb of this year. We had a lot of fun making and performing it and now you can listen to it in full. Enjoy!
Works Mentioned & Referenced
Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone
Edgar Allen Poe: “The Murders on the Rue Morgue”
Eugene Francois Vidocq: Memoires
Charles Dickens: Household Words magazine
Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Lady Audley’s Secret
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet
Fergus Hume: The Mystery of the Hansom Cab
Elizabeth Thomasina Meade
Arthur Morrison: Martin Hewitt novels
Dorothy L. Sayers: various novels
Howard Haycroft
Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair at Styles; And Then There Were None
Various Detection Club authors: The Floating Admiral
Ronald Knox: “Ten Commandments”
Baroness Orczy: Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (or check out a whole WTTE episode on her here
Raymond Chandler: “The Simple Art of Murder”
Michael Gilbert: various novels
Colin Dexter: Inspector Morse novels
CSI (tv show)
Diagnosis Murder (tv show)
Stieg Larrson: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Andrea Camilleri: Montalbano novels
Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose
China Mieville: The City and the City
Jim Butcher: Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden novels
Thomas Harris: Hannibal Lecter novels
AA Dhand: Harry Virdee novels
Kwei Quartey: various novels
Steph Cha: Juniper Song novels
Renee James: Bobbi Logan novels
Music
All music by Blue Dot Sessions
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You can listen to another WTTE live show, Live at Liberty Hall, here
There’s also a WTTE episode on Golden Age Detective Fiction with Caroline as a guest (the one that started it all!)
There are also detective -based episodes on Conan Doyle , Domestic Noir thrillers, and Baroness Orczy
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Words Dunnit Transcripts
Full transcripts for the Words Dunnit episode will be available soon