Murder mysteries and binge-reading – enjoy episode 57!   In this episode, we compare an uncharacteristically modern novel – The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton, published in 2018 – with Agatha Christie’s classic Poirot novel The Murder of Roger

Murder mysteries and binge-reading – enjoy episode 57!


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In this episode, we compare an uncharacteristically modern novel – The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton, published in 2018 – with Agatha Christie’s classic Poirot novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. In the first half, we debate whether we binge-read authors or spread them out to save them.


Feel sorry for Rachel this week – she’s rather croaky with a cold, but she powers on admirably! I’ve edited out most of her coughing, poor thing, but apologies for any that have snuck in.


You can check out our Patreon account – where you can support the podcast at various different reward levels, including having a book sent each month. We also have our iTunes page, and you can read Rachel’s reviews of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.


The books and authors we mention in this episode are:


Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar

Charlotte Bronte: A Life by Claire Harman

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Villette by Charlotte Bronte

Iris Murdoch

A.A. Milne

E.M. Delafield

Richmal Crompton

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Charles Dickens

P.G. Wodehouse

Jane Austen

Miss Read

Enid Blyton

Point Horror

The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton

The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard

The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy

The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks

Albert the Dragon by Rosemary Weir

Further Adventures of Albert the Dragon by Rosemary Weir

Barbara Pym

Dorothy Whipple

Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Bowen

Sanditon by Jane Austen

The Watsons by Jane Austen

Lady Susan by Jane Austen

Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

Beverley Nichols

Anne Tyler

Rose Macaulay

The Loved One by Edith Olivier

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie

Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann

The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West

Cousin Rosamund by Rebecca West

Books Referenced