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My First Green Penguin

We’ve got puffins, peacocks and penguins galore!

24 Dec 2025,27 mins

A Christie for Christmas

A devastating global pandemic preceded the original golden age of detective fiction.

17 Dec 2025,22 mins

A Christmas Feast

Make sure nobody has tampered with your turkey…

10 Dec 2025,22 mins

Mary Westmacott

Sometimes, Agatha Christie didn’t want to be Agatha Christie.

03 Dec 2025,17 mins

The Rasp (Green Penguin Book Club 12)

Film historian Sergio Angelini joins Caroline to discuss a rather cinematic whodunnit.

26 Nov 2025,52 mins

A Room of One's Own

A woman needs a room of her own, and £500 a year to write fiction.

19 Nov 2025,28 mins

The Case of Georgette Heyer

Why aren’t her dozen detective novels better known?

12 Nov 2025,23 mins

Peace at Last

The day the First World War ended, 11 November 1918, marked the beginning of a new era.

05 Nov 2025,20 mins

Halloween

A murder mystery can be spooky, too.

29 Oct 2025,22 mins

Happily Ever After

What would Peter Wimsey be without Harriet Vane?

22 Oct 2025,23 mins

The Servant Problem

How the interwar servant shortage changed detective fiction.

15 Oct 2025,34 mins

Off The Rails

When murder throws everything off the rails.

08 Oct 2025,25 mins

The Crime Clubs

Do secret societies have any place in murder mysteries?

01 Oct 2025,23 mins

Crippen

This is the story of Dr Crippen.

24 Sep 2025,22 mins

Trent's Last Case (Green Penguin Book Club 11)

Australian mystery reading duo Flex and Herds join Caroline to look at this whodunnit.

17 Sep 2025,37 mins

The Butler Did It

Snobbery and murder, all served up perfectly for you on a silver tray.

10 Sep 2025,22 mins

The Cluefinder

A literary device from the golden age of detective fiction is making a comeback.

03 Sep 2025,32 mins

Death Sets Sail on the Nile

Why is the Nile a murder mystery location that has bewitched readers for decades?

27 Aug 2025,26 mins

Rediscovering Miss Marple

Getting back in touch with the foremost citizen of St Mary Mead.

20 Aug 2025,37 mins

Nurse Daniels

Her disappearance captivated the world.

13 Aug 2025,26 mins,

Murder at the Bookshop

Death lurks among the shelves — in crime fiction, that is.

06 Aug 2025,19 mins

The Mutual Admiration Society

One chilly night in November 1912, the Mutual Admiration Society was formed.

30 Jul 2025,24 mins

Death on Paper

There’s a lot of fun to be had with an epistolary mystery.

23 Jul 2025,25 mins

The Detection Club

It started with dinner and ended with crime writers swearing an oath on a skull.

16 Jul 2025,25 mins

The Man in the Dark (Green Penguin Book Club 10)

Kate Jackson joins Caroline to read John Ferguson’s intriguing “Ealing mystery”.

09 Jul 2025,42 mins

The Lady Detective

Meet Maud West, a real life lady detective from the golden age of detective fiction.

02 Jul 2025,19 mins

The Poison Book

How crime writers turned pharmaceutical regulations into plot points.

25 Jun 2025,40 mins

Brides in the Bath

Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. But three times?

18 Jun 2025,31 mins

The Murder Mystery Hotline II

Our golden age detective fiction recommendation line is at your service.

11 Jun 2025,23 mins

Notable Trials

How did a legal history series become so well known even Lord Peter Wimsey owned a set?

04 Jun 2025,19 mins