John Curran joins Caroline to read Christie’s third novel, her first (sort of?) to appear as a green penguin.

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No major plot spoilers until you hear Caroline say we are "entering the spoiler zone", at 25:52 . After that, expect full spoilers.

Mentioned in this episode:

— Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie

— Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks by John Curran

— Murder in the Making by John Curran

— The Big Four by Agatha Christie

— Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie

— The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

— The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

— The Clocks by Agatha Christie

— Third Girl by Agatha Christie

— Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie

— Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie

— An Autobiography by Agatha Christie

— Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie

— Peril at End House by Agatha Christie

— And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

— Crooked House by Agatha Christie

— Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie

— The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

— Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

— The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie

— The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux

— The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green

— Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie

— Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie

— Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie

— The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie

— Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie

— Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie

— "How Does Your Garden Grow?" by Agatha Christie, collected in Poirot's Early Cases

— "The Cornish Mystery" by Agatha Christie, collected in The Under Dog and Other Stories

— The Hollow by Agatha Christie

— The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L Sayers

— The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

— A Body Made of Glass by Caroline Crampton

Related Shedunnit episodes:

— The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Green Penguin Book Club 1)

— Death Under Par

— Agatha the Adventuress

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