Spooky Sleuthing

The supernatural and the rational come together in the murder mystery.

Thank you to my returning guest, Carla Valentine, for joining me. She is a trained mortuary technician and the technical curator at Barts Pathology Museum in London. She’s also the author of Murder Isn’t Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie.

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Mentioned in this episode:

— The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe

— The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

— The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

— Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie

— The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace

— The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie

— The Halloween Murders by John Newton Chance

— Wraiths and Changelings by Gladys Mitchell

— Calendar of Crime by Ellery Queen

— The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham

— The Plague Court Murders by John Dickson Carr

— The Red Widow Murders by John Dickson Carr

— Footsteps in the Dark by Georgette Heyer

— When Last I Died by Gladys Mitchell

— Murder is Easy by Agatha Christie

— The Unicorn Murders by John Dickson Carr

— A Corpse at Camp Two by Glyn Carr

— He Who Whispers by John Dickson Carr

— The Spirit Murder Mystery by Robin Forsythe

— Look to the Lady by Margery Allingham

Related Shedunnit episodes:

— Knock Knock

— Murder Isn't Easy

— The Golden Age Autopsy

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