Caroline: J.R.R. Tolkien couldn't stand it. George Orwell thought it was a bad detective story. One critic has described its protagonist as "a Yoko Ono figure" who lured her creator away from writing crime fiction. And yet, Gaudy Night is a brilliant and beloved
22 Jan 2025Caroline: Every January, I think about the Christmas Eve shift in the bookshop where I worked as a teenager. The day itself would be hectic, with a constant flow of people crowding in to do last minute present shopping. Then, after we had closed, the staff stayed for an extra
08 Jan 2025Music Caroline: Welcome to Shedunnit I'm Caroline Crampton. I've made a lot of episodes of Shedunnit — this is the 152nd, actually, but whose counting. And almost all of them feature me talking, sharing my research and opinions about the golden age of detective fiction. But I&
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