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Words Dunnit
April 3, 2020April 2, 2020 ConorCrime, Detective Fiction

Ep 44: Words Dunnit (Live at the Dublin Podcast Festival)

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 read more…

Golden Age Detective Fiction - Words To That Effect Ep32
May 7, 2019May 7, 2019 Conor20th Century Literature, British Literature, Crime, Detective Fiction

Ep32: Golden Age Detective Fiction

An English country estate. A detective pacing the room, explaining how they have solved the crime, revealing the solution to a puzzle and the clues which were there all along. It’s so easy to parody this scene because it’s so familiar. It’s Reverend Green in the drawing room with the read more…

Words To That Effect Ep20 Domestic Noir
June 4, 2018February 17, 2019 Conor21st Century Literature, American Literature, British Literature, Crime, Irish Literature

Episode 20: Domestic Noir

Why Are There So Many Crime Thrillers With ‘Girl’ in the Title? Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, Luckiest Girl Alive, Final Girls… There’s no shortage of crime novels with ‘girl’ in the title since the huge success of Gillian Flynn’s 2012 thriller Gone Girl. But what do these read more…

November 13, 2017January 25, 2018 Conor19th Century Literature, Crime, Literature and Science, Medicine, Science, Victorian

Episode 11: Cesare Lombroso & The Born Criminal

    Turin in the 19th Century The northern Italian city of Turin is quite distinctive as Italian cities go. It is still Italy, so of course it has its grand piazzas and ornate churches, and pasta and pizza and cappuccinos. But whereas in so many Italian cities it is read more…

October 2, 2017January 25, 2018 Conor20th Century Literature, American Literature, Crime, History, Medicine, Science

Episode 8: A Lawyer, an Author, and a Murderer – The Trial of William Edward Hickman

“The most horrible crime of the 1920s” The case of William Edward Hickman went to trial in Los Angeles in 1928. The accused was charged with the gruesome murder of a 12-year-old girl, and he faced the death penalty. The trial was reported all across the U.S. because it was read more…

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