John Curran joins Caroline to read Christie’s third novel, her first (sort of?) to appear as a green penguin.
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No major plot spoilers until you hear Caroline say we are "entering the spoiler zone", at 25:52. After that, expect full spoilers.
Mentioned in this episode:
— Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
— Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks by John Curran
— Murder in the Making by John Curran
— The Big Four by Agatha Christie
— Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
— The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
— The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
— The Clocks by Agatha Christie
— Third Girl by Agatha Christie
— Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie
— Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie
— An Autobiography by Agatha Christie
— Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie
— Peril at End House by Agatha Christie
— And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
— Crooked House by Agatha Christie
— Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie
— The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
— Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
— The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
— The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux
— The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green
— Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie
— Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie
— Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie
— The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie
— Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
— Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie
— "How Does Your Garden Grow?" by Agatha Christie, collected in Poirot's Early Cases
— "The Cornish Mystery" by Agatha Christie, collected in The Under Dog and Other Stories
— The Hollow by Agatha Christie
— The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L Sayers
— The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
— A Body Made of Glass by Caroline Crampton
Related Shedunnit episodes:
— The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Green Penguin Book Club 1)
— Death Under Par
— Agatha the Adventuress
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