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Murder-on-Sea

Murder does like to be beside the seaside.

Thanks very much to my guests. Dr Allan Brodie is a visiting fellow at Bournemouth University and the author of books including England’s Seaside Heritage from the AirDr Kathryn Ferry is a historian of the British seaside and the author of books including The British Seaside Holiday, more information available at kathrynferry.co.uk.

Be aware: there is a brief, non-specific mention of suicide in this episode. There are no major spoilers and non-spoiler details given about the books listed below.

Mentioned in this episode:

The Cornish Coast Murder by John Bude

The Sea Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts

Mist on the Saltings by Henry Wade

The Cape Cod Mystery by Phoebe Atwood Taylor

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie

The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie

N or M? by Agatha Christie

Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers

The Seat of the Scornful by John Dickson Carr

When Last I Died by Gladys Mitchell

— “Razor Edge” by Anthony Berkeley, collected in Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards

The Case of the Haven Hotel by Christopher Bush

A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey

Mystery at Lynden Sands by JJ Connington

— And Being Dead by Margaret Erskine

The Crime Coast by Elizabeth Gill

The Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers

Death at the Bar by Ngaio Marsh

Related Shedunnit episodes:

— Episode 1 of “Mysteries of Summer”: Cricket and Crime

— Episode 2 of “Mysteries of Summer”: Murder in a Heatwave

Murder on Holiday

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