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In GAD We Trust–Episode 31: Bodies from the Library 6 (2023) ed. Tony Medawar [w’Tony Medawar] from 2023-12-02T02:30
Another year, another Bodies from the Library collection — incredibly, the sixth — and another opportunity to sit down with Tony Medawar and talk about the wonderful work he’s doi...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 30: The Joys of Detective Fiction + Montgomery Bonbon: Death at the Lighthouse (2023) by Alasdair Beckett-King [w’Alasdair Beckett-King] from 2023-10-07T01:30
The return of my In GAD We Trust podcast, and a welcome return for Alasdair Beckett-King, comedian and now children’s author. Since last appearing on the podcast, Alasdair has written two boo...
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Spoiler Warning–Mrs. McGinty’s Dead (1952) by Agatha Christie from 2022-10-22T01:30
One final dive into the crystal-clear waters of talking about a mystery novel without having to carefully avoid the details — here are Brad, Moira, and myself discussing Mrs. McGinty’s ...
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Spoiler Warning–Towards Zero (1944) by Agatha Christie from 2022-07-30T01:30
Hopefully your summer heatwave — or winter freeze-wave — has passed and you’re calm, relaxed, and ready to listen to Brad, Moira, and me discuss some Agatha Christie in spoiler-fi...
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Spoiler Warning–Five Little Pigs, a.k.a. Murder in Retrospect (1942) by Agatha Christie from 2022-04-16T01:30
A long weekend (probably) awaits, so how better to pass some time than listening to Brad, Moira, and me discuss Five Little Pigs, a.k.a. Murder in Retrospect (1942) by Agatha Christie? Okay, sure, ...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 29: Writing The Red Death Murders (2022) from 2022-03-19T02:30
All good things come to an end, and so does my podcast; started in the first UK lockdown and hard to justify now that lockdowns are well and truly over, In GAD We Trust’s 30th episode (number...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 28: Writing Mysteries for Younger Readers [w’M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman] from 2022-02-12T02:30
There is a Golden Age of detective fiction going on at the very moment, but because most of what’s being written is aimed at 8-to-12 year-olds, it gets overlooked by, like, grown-ups. I’...
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Spoiler Warning–After the Funeral, a.k.a. Funerals Are Fatal (1953) by Agatha Christie + Vote for Future Episodes from 2022-01-08T02:30
Slightly later than planned — er, sorry about that — let’s see what Brad, Moira, and I made of Dame Agatha’s After the Funeral, a.k.a. Funerals Are Fatal (1953), shall we? Y...
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In GAD We Trust–Bonus Episode! The Highs and Lows of Jonathan Creek [w’Nick Cardillo] from 2021-09-25T01:30
Last week, Nick Cardillo and I discussed the impossible crime on screen, at the end of which he casually asked about Jonathan Creek like I’d be able to condense my thoughts into a pithy bon m...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 27: The Impossible Crime on Screen [w’Nick Cardillo] from 2021-09-18T01:30
Does In GAD We Trust have a hype train? If so, stoke the conductor, point the rails, wake up the boiler, and do other train things, because episode 27 is here and Nick Cardillo wants to talk about ...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 26: The Maxims of Misdirection from 2021-09-04T01:30
I’m as surprised as you to see a new episode of my In GAD We Trust podcast, especially as I said on Thursday that there was unlikely to be one this weekend — well, okay, perhaps a IR...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 25: Fair Play and the Nomenclature of Golden Age Detective Fiction [w’Scott K. Ratner] from 2021-08-21T01:30
Gutsy of me to suggest, on my site dedicated to the discussion of Golden Age detective fiction, that a lot of the terminology used to talk about these stories is incorrect, eh? Well, thankfully I&#...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 24: Bodies from the Library 4 (2021) ed. Tony Medawar + The International Agatha Christie Festival 2021 + Even More! [w’Tony Medawar] from 2021-08-07T01:30
Prepare yourself for what might just be the most jam-packed episode of In GAD We Trust to date — when you sit down with Tony Medawar, there’s always going to be a lot to talk about. Wit...
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Spoiler Warning – A Murder is Announced (1950) by Agatha Christie from 2021-07-24T01:30
Here we go: another Agatha Christie-centred, spoiler-filled discussion betwixt Moira, Brad, and myself, this time looking at her highly-regarded Jane Marple mystery A Murder is Announced (1950). Yo...
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In GAD We Trust – Episode 23: What’s in a Watson? [w’ Caroline Crampton] from 2021-07-10T01:30
The companion of the fictional detective — the “stupid friend” as Ronald Knox styled them — is something I have spent far too long thinking about, mainly because the protoyp...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 22: On Making a Good First Impression [w’Sergio @ Tipping My Fedora + Brad @ AhSweetMysteryBlog] from 2021-06-26T01:30
After the interruption to the schedule of two weeks ago, here’s another In GAD We Trust podcast — and given the topic of ‘Making a Good First Impression’ it’s only fit...
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In GAD We Trust – Episode 21: The Diversity of Approaches to Detective Fiction [w’ Martin Edwards] from 2021-05-29T01:30
The detective fiction genre is built around the essential structure of a crime, an investigation of that crime, and the revelation of the guilty party who committed the crime, and good heavens didn...
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Spoiler Warning–Cards on the Table (1936) by Agatha Christie from 2021-05-01T01:30
Slightly later than promised — or not, depending on your time zone — here’s the long-anticipated spoiler-heavy discussion betwixt Brad, Moira, and myself about Agatha ChristieR...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 20: The Dr. Thorndyke Stories of R. Austin Freeman [w’Dolores Gordon-Smith] from 2021-03-13T02:45
In January of last year, I read my first R. Austin Freeman novel, little suspecting that it was to be the first step along a road of sheer delight. And so, to mark the end of Series 2 of In GAD We ...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 19: Reissue! Repackage! Repackage! [w’Various People] from 2021-02-27T02:25
On the back of the Reprint of the Year Award run by Kate at CrossExaminingCrime, I thought it might be interesting to see what those of us who submit titles for that undertaking would choose to bri...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 18: The‘No Footprints’Impossible Crime [w’Tom Mead] from 2021-02-13T02:15
For a blog set up with the implicit aim to explore the impossible crime in fiction, it has to be said that impossibilities have been rather thin on the ground at The Invisible Event of late. Here, ...
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Spoiler Warning–The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) by Agatha Christie from 2021-01-30T02:30
You voted for it, here it is: a spoiler-filled discussion betwixt Brad, Moira, and myself about Agatha Christie’s none-more-audacious The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926). You have hopefully fi...
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In GAD We Trust – Episode 17: The Hardboiled Golden Age on Page and Screen [w’Sergio @ Tipping My Fedora] from 2021-01-16T02:45
After watching detective fiction play out in the drawing rooms of ivory towers for too long, I’m heading into the mean streets to get some grease under my nails, a shiv waved in my face, and ...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 16: Modern Writers in the Golden Age Tradition [w’Puzzle Doctor @ In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel] from 2021-01-02T02:50
Let’s get the new year off to a happy start by showing some appreciation for contemporary authors who make life difficult for themselves by upholding the traditions of Golden Age detective fi...
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In GAD We Trust – Episode 15: Criticising the Golden Age [w’ Kate @ CrossExaminingCrime] from 2020-12-19T02:00
‘Tis the season to be jolly, so I’m delighted to welcome Kate from CrossExaminingCrime back to my Golden Age detective fiction podcast so that we can discuss those who have sought to be...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 14: The Island of Coffins (2021) by John Dickson Carr + The 9.50 Up Express (2021) by Freeman Wills Crofts [w’Tony Medawar] from 2020-12-05T02:45
We’re all prone to speculate at times about how wonderful it would be to discover a previously-unpublished work by a beloved Golden Age author, and for today’s podcast episode Tony Meda...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 13: Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World (2020) by Mark Aldridge [w’Mark Aldridge] from 2020-11-21T03:00
This year’s celebrations of the centenary of Hercule Poirot’s debut and, arguably, the dawn of the Golden Age of Detection have obviously been overshadowed by wider events, but there...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 12: Appeal and Deception in Golden Age Detective Fiction [w’Scott K. Ratner] from 2020-11-07T03:05
You thought this podcast was nerdy before? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Today we welcome the GADisphere’s own Scott K. Ratner, and things get taxonomical… Scott is at the top...
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Spoiler Warning–The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) by Agatha Christie from 2020-10-24T01:50
No, Christmas isn’t for another two months, but it’s been a tough year and so here’s a gift to get you through the darkening days (yes, thank-you, the Southern Hemisphere…):...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 11: The Tropes of Detective Fiction [w’James Scott Byrnside] from 2020-10-10T02:15
The time has come again for some nerdy Golden Age Detection podcasting, and James Scott Byrnside is here to oblige with a discussion about some of the tropes we know and love from GAD fiction After...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 10: Genre and Detective Fiction [w’Ryan O’Neill] from 2020-08-01T01:00:14
A final (for now) podcast episode before I head off on hiatus, this time discussing the idea of genre with author Ryan O’Neill. This was going to be the first episode of a loose series on the...
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Spoiler Warning–The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) by Agatha Christie from 2020-07-25T01:00:18
A podcast episode a couple of months short of 100 years in the making, we are here today to discuss The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) by Agatha Christie. To celebrate a century since the start...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 9: Japanese-English Translation + The Honjin Murders (1946) by Seishi Yokomizo [w’Louise Heal Kawai] from 2020-07-18T01:00:52
A seam of superb Japanese detective novels and short stories have crossed the language barrier in recent years, teaching even the most culturally ignorant of us to tell our honkaku from our shin ho...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 8: Uncovering Long-Forgotten Short Stories + Bodies from the Library 3 (2020) ed. Tony Medawar [w’Tony Medawar] from 2020-07-04T01:45:44
Today was due to have been the sixth (sixth!) Bodies from the Library conference at the British Library but, for obvious reasons, it’s not. I can’t, alas, give you a whole day of GAD-b...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 7: The Father Brown Stories of G.K. Chesterton [w’John @ Countdown John’s Christie Journal] from 2020-06-20T01:50:29
This week on my Lockdown Podcast In GAD We Trust, the cream of G.K. Chesterton’s stories about his crime-solving Roman Catholic priest as selected by John who blogs at Countdown John’s ...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 6: Detective Fiction is Comedy [w’Alasdair Beckett-King] from 2020-06-06T02:00:07
It’s long been a tenet of mine that detective fiction and comedy have a great deal in common, and to pursue that this week via the medium of podcasting I’ve enlisted the help of comedia...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 5: GAD in the Time of COVID-19 [w’Brad @ AhSweetMysteryBlog] from 2020-05-23T02:00:18
As the COVID-19 pandemic rolls into its 348th week, Brad from AhSweetMysteryBlog is here with some salutary advice. See, back in March, Brad made a great case for the approaching crisis and enforce...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 4: Magic, Mummery, and Misdirection [w’John @ Pretty Sinister Books] from 2020-05-09T01:40:05
Lockdown rolls on, and so does my GAD-focussed podcast, which this time around sees me picking the brains of John Norris who blogs at Pretty Sinister Books and is surely one of the most widely-read...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 3: British Library Crime Classics and Mortmain Hall (2020) by Martin Edwards [w’Martin Edwards] from 2020-04-25T02:00:17
Here we go again, podcast time! And this week I’m joined by President of the Detection Club and recent recipient of the Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Dagger, Martin Edwards. Of co...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 2: Inverted Mysteries [w’Aidan @ Mysteries Ahoy!] from 2020-04-11T02:00:09
Another week in lockdown, another episode of my new “hopefully this will distract you” Golden Age Detection podcast, In GAD We Trust. Today I’m joined by Aidan of Mysteries Ahoy! ...
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In GAD We Trust–Episode 1: Female Sleuths [w’Kate @ CrossExaminingCrime] from 2020-04-04T01:00:58
You’re stuck at home, you’re bored, you could really do with a new, Golden Age Detection-focussed podcast to help pass the time, eh? Let’s hope so, because today you’re gett...
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