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The Green Penguin

One visit to Agatha Christie changed everything.

One visit to Agatha Christie changed everything.

Thank you to my guest, Jules Burt, for sharing his book-collecting experiences and knowledge with us.

Mentioned in this episode:
— The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
— Ulysses by James Joyce
— Ariel by André Maurois
— Death on the Borough Council by Josephine Bell
— Speedy Death by Gladys Mitchell
— Taken on Trust by Terry Waite
— Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
— The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L Sayers
— Allen Lane: King Penguin by J.E. Morpurgo
— A Body Made of Glass by Caroline Crampton
— Penguin Special: Life and Times of Allen Lane by Jeremy Lewis
— Mushroom Jungle: A History of Postwar Paperback Publishing by Stephen Holland
— The Penguin Story by W.E. Williams
— ‘A Paperback Guide to Progress: Penguin Books 1935– c .1951’ by Nicholas Joicey in Twentieth Century British History, 1993

Shedunnit Episodes Mentioned:
— The Nobodies

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Shedunnit is written, produced and narrated by Caroline Crampton and edited by Euan MacAleece. Production assistance from Leandra Griffith.

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29 minutes