Tea or Books? #116: Do We Like Books About Sport and Quick Curtain vs It Walks By Night

John Dickson Carr, Alan Melville, sports – welcome to episode 116! In the first half, we talk about sports in books – do we like them? Will we be able to think of any? Thank you to Lindsey for suggesting

John Dickson Carr, Alan Melville, sports – welcome to episode 116!

In the first half, we talk about sports in books – do we like them? Will we be able to think of any? Thank you to Lindsey for suggesting the topic! In the second half we compare two murder mysteries: It Walks By Night by John Dickson Carr and Quick Curtain by Alan Melville.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

This Census-Taker by China Miéville

The City and the City by China Miéville

The Portrait by Willem Jan Otten

Bricks and Mortar by Helen Ashton

Hornet’s Nest by Helen Ashton

Dr Serecold by Helen Ashton

Yeoman’s Hospital by Helen Ashton

People in Cages by Helen Ashton

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley

Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman

How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup by J.L. Carr

A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr

A Season in Sinji by J.L. Carr

The Silence of Colonel Bramble by Andre Maurois

A.A. Milne

P.G. Wodehouse

Rudyard Kipling

Tom Brown’s School Days by Thomas Hughes

St Clare’s series by Enid Blyton

Malory Towers series by Enid Blyton

The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman

Double Fault by Lionel Shriver

Morse series by Colin Dexter

Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm

Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay

The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin

Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain

Opening Night by Ngaio Marsh

Cinderella Goes To The Morgue by Nancy Spain

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

Death of Anton by Alan Melville

Weekend at Thrackley by Alan Melville

Sally on the Rocks by Winifred Boggs

Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott