Green Penguin Music Caroline: Welcome to Shedunnit. I’m Caroline Crampton. And welcome back to Green Penguin Book Club, a series within Shedunnit that documents my journey of reading and discussing every crime or green title from the main Penguin series, in order. Our book today is Mr Fortune, Please
07 Aug 2024Caroline: In the appreciation of detective fiction, there is a tendency to view certain elements of the form as an either/or situation. A writer can either be good at plot or at characters, dialogue or description, clewing or twists. It isn't normal, or indeed permitted, to have
24 Jul 2024Music Leandra: The date is Friday, 16th January, 1920. At the Metropolitan Club in Washington D.C., Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and future 32nd president of the US, Franklin D Roosevelt spends this winter evening drinking champagne with other members of the Harvard class of 1904. Further north, on
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