The Murder Mystery Hotline

If you need a golden age detective fiction recommendation, we are at your service.

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Books mentioned in the episode:

— A Grave Mistake by Ngaio Marsh

— Common or Garden Crime by Sheila Pim

— Unholy Dying by RT Campbell

— The Death Cap by RT Campbell

— Black Orchids by Rex Stout

— Up the Garden Path by John Rhode

— False Scent by Ngaio Marsh

— A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud by Karl Sabbagh

— Dead Man's Quarry by Ianthe Jerrold

— The Murder of My Aunt by Richard Hull

— Death on Tiptoe by RC Ashby

— Noonday and Night by Gladys Mitchell

— The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

— Death of Mr Dodsley by John Ferguson

— Death of an Author by ECR Lorac

— The Mysterious Mr Badman by WF Harvey

— Murder in the Bookshop by Carolyn Wells

— Bodies in a Bookshop by RT Campbell

— Murder by the Book, edited by Martin Edwards

— Bibliomysteries: Stories of Crime in the World of Books and Bookstores, edited by Otto Penzler

— The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie

— A Case of Books by Bruce Graeme

— The Widening Stain by W. Bolingbroke Johnson

— Mystery at Geneva by Rose Macaulay

— The Death of a Diplomat by Peter Oldfeld

— Murder at School by Glen Trevor

— "Manx Gold" by Agatha Christie, featured in The Harlequin Tea Set and While the Light Lasts

— These Names Make Clues by ECR Lorac

— The Chinese Orange Mystery by Ellery Queen

— The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

— Enter A Murderer by Ngaio Marsh

— Opening Night by Ngaio Marsh

— Vintage Murder by Ngaio Marsh

— Overture to Death by Ngaio Marsh

— Final Curtain by Ngaio Marsh

— Death at the Dolphin by Ngaio Marsh

— The Bungalow Mystery by Anne Haynes

— Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham

— Quick Curtain by Alan Melville

— Black Express by Conyth Little

— The Norths Meet Murder by Frances and Richard Lockridge

— The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett

— Murder on Safari by Elspeth Huxley

— The Penguin Pool Murder by Stuart Palmer

— Twice Round the Clock by Billie Houston

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