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

Notes & Queries

There’s always more to say about detective fiction.

• 23 mins

Whodunnit Centenary: 1925

Reading the mysteries of the past 100 years.

• 31 mins

On Gaudy Night

Caroline goes deep on Dorothy L. Sayers’ 1935 masterpiece.

• 36 mins

The Missing Moneylender by W. Stanley Sykes (Green Penguin Book Club 7)

Moira Redmond joins Caroline to consider a surprising medical mystery from 1931.

• 49 mins

Agatha Christie’s Taste in Crime Fiction

She is beloved worldwide for her crime writing. But what did she like to read?

• 23 mins

The Lady Vanishes

On 3 December 1926, Agatha Christie vanished.

• 22 mins

The Mystery Short Story

A consideration of crime fiction’s more compact incarnation.

• 39 mins