The Red Barn Murder

What connects a notorious 1827 murder case with the Detection Club鈥檚 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 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鈥� 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 more compact incarnation.

• 39 mins