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The Crimes of Dorothy Erskine Muir

The Crimes of Dorothy Erskine Muir

Update: 2025-04-30
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Fact meets fiction in the work of this unjustly overlooked writer.




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Books mentioned in this episode:— ⁠In Muffled Night by Dorothy Erskine Muir⁠⁠Five to Five by Dorothy Erskine Muir⁠⁠In Memory of Charles by Dorothy Erskine Muir⁠— Lift the Curtain by Dorothy Erskine Muir— ⁠A History of Milan Under the Visconti by Dorothy Erskine Muir⁠⁠Ask a Policeman by The Detection Club⁠⁠Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L Sayers⁠⁠Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie⁠⁠Jumping Jenny by Anthony Berkeley⁠— Seeing is Believing by John Dickson Carr— Heaven Knows Who by Christianna Brand— ⁠Trent's Last Case by E.C. Bentley⁠⁠Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L Sayers⁠⁠When Last I Died by Gladys Mitchell⁠⁠A Pin to See the Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse⁠— "Three is a Lucky Number" by Margery Allinhgam— ⁠The Trial of Oscar Slater by William Roughead⁠⁠The Case of Oscar Slater by Arthur Conan Doyle⁠⁠And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie⁠




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The Crimes of Dorothy Erskine Muir

The Crimes of Dorothy Erskine Muir

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