Teaching Sleuthing

Detective fiction has always been regarded as a lesser kind of literature. So how do you teach it in a university? Find links to all the books and sources mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/teachingsleuthing. Special thanks today to my guest Dr Victoria Stewart. You can follow her on Twitter @verbivorial and order her book Crime Writing in Interwar Britain: Fact and Fiction in the Golden Age here. Become a member of the Shedunnit book club and get bonus audio, listen to ad free episodes and join a book-loving community at shedunnitshow.com/bookclub. Books and sources: —"Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?" by Edmund Wilson —"The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allen Poe —The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins —The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle —Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman by E.W.Hornung —Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles —The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie —The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie —The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers —Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers —"The Case of Agatha Christie" by John Lanchester in the London Review of BooksTo be the first to know about future developments with the podcast, sign up for the newsletter at shedunnitshow.com/newsletter. The podcast is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram as @ShedunnitShow, and you can find it in all major podcast apps. Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the next episode. Click here to do that now in your app of choice. Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/teachingsleuthingstranscript. Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices