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The Documents in the Case (Green Penguin Book Club 13)

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Show Notes

Victoria Stewart joins Caroline to discuss Dorothy L. Sayers’ epistolary poisoning mystery.

No major plot spoilers until you hear Caroline say we are "entering the spoiler zone", at 14:59. After that, expect full spoilers.

A full list of titles in the Penguin series can be found at penguinfirsteditions.com. The next book discussed in this series will be The Sandfield Scandal by Richard Keverne.

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Books mentioned in this episode:— The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace— Crime Writing in Interwar Britain by Victoria Stewart— Literature and Justice in Mid-Twentieth Century Literature by Victoria Stewart— The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins— Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers— Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers— A Pin to See the Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse

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