Death at the Club

Private members’ clubs are surprisingly popular with corpses.

• 22 mins

Who Was Robert Eustace?

A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

• 25 mins

The Murderless Christmas Mystery

Not every mystery needs a murder.

• 22 mins

The Lifelong Fan

Renée read her first detective novel in the 1930s. She hasn’t stopped since.

• 23 mins

Whodunnit Centenary: 1924

Time travelling, murder mystery style.

• 26 mins

A Reading Life

A conversation about how Shedunnit is made.

• 46 mins

The Green Penguin

One visit to Agatha Christie changed everything.

• 28 mins

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

Helen Zaltzman is the guest for this dissection of the first green penguin.

• 61 mins

Lucy, Anthony and Anne

The crime fiction of Lucy Beatrice Malleson deserves to be better known.

• 26 mins

The Tea Leaf

A scientific murder mystery.

• 41 mins

You Probably Imagined It!

Meet the hypochondriacs of golden age detective fiction

• 23 mins

Agatha Christie's Many Houses

A portrait of a writer via her addresses.

• 24 mins

The Murder on the Links

John Curran joins Caroline to read Christie’s third novel, her first green penguin.

• 53 mins

The A.A. Milne Mystery

Why didn’t the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh write more detective fiction?

• 22 mins

Dylan's Whodunnits

The great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas had a passion for detective stories.

• 38 mins

Murder in the Library

There’s something sinister in the stacks.

• 53 mins

The Thin Man

CriminOlly joins Caroline to read this classic of American hardboiled crime fiction.

• 49 mins

Death at the Speakeasy

During Prohibition, the cocktails are downright criminal.

• 63 mins

Christianna Brand's Impossible Crimes

Which matters more in a murder mystery, plot or character?

• 22 mins

Mr Fortune, Please

Dolores Gordon-Smith joins Caroline to read this short story collection by H.C. Bailey.

• 59 mins

Instrument of Death

Beware the pipe organ.

• 21 mins

In the Dentist's Chair

Open wide! What could possibly go wrong?

• 23 mins

The Red Barn Murder

What connects a notorious 1827 murder case with the Detection Club’s cosy Soho clubrooms?

• 27 mins

The Poisoned Chocolates Case

Martin Edwards joins Caroline to revisit this icon of golden age detective fiction.

• 37 mins

Mysterious Knitting

How to weave the perfect murder mystery plot.

• 21 mins

Vanishing Corpses

Where did that dead body go? It was right there!

• 22 mins

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Kathryn Harkup and Caroline reconsider Agatha Christe’s very first detective novel.

• 50 mins

Edmund Crispin's Inside Jokes

The creator of amateur sleuth Gervase Fen loved to make fun of detective fiction.

• 28 mins

The Box of Delights

Caroline and Guy discuss this beloved children's book by John Masefield.

• 43 mins

Father Christmas

The magical spirit of Christmas is the perfect cover for a murder mystery.

• 21 mins