Kathryn Harkup is Caroline’s guest for a reconsideration of Agatha Christie’s very first detective novel.

No major plot spoilers until you hear Caroline say we are "entering the spoiler zone", at 22:30 . After that, expect full spoilers.

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Mentioned in this episode:

— The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

— The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux

— Agatha Christie's Complete Secret Notebooks by John Curran

— A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn Harkup

— The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie

— The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie

— The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side by Agatha Christie

— The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley

— The Missing Moneylender by W Stanley Sykes

Kathryn Harkup's past appearances on Shedunnit:

— The Dispenser

— The Pale Horse

Past Shedunnit Green Penguin episodes:

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

— The Murder on the Links (Green Penguin Book Club 2)

— The Thin Man (Green Penguin Book Club 3)

— Mr Fortune, Please (Green Penguin Book Club 4)

— The Poisoned Chocolates Case (Green Penguin Book Club 5)

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