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Murder does like to be beside the seaside.

Thanks very much to my guests. Dr Allan Brodie is a visiting fellow at Bournemouth University and the author of books including England's Seaside Heritage from the Air. Dr Kathryn Ferry is a historian of the British seaside and the author of books including The British Seaside Holiday, more information available at kathrynferry.co.uk.

Be aware: there is a brief, non-specific mention of suicide in this episode. There are no major spoilers and non-spoiler details given about the books listed below.

Mentioned in this episode:

— The Cornish Coast Murder by John Bude

— The Sea Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts

— Mist on the Saltings by Henry Wade

— The Cape Cod Mystery by Phoebe Atwood Taylor

— And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

— Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie

— The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie

— N or M? by Agatha Christie

— Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers

— The Seat of the Scornful by John Dickson Carr

— When Last I Died by Gladys Mitchell

— “Razor Edge” by Anthony Berkeley, collected in Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards

— The Case of the Haven Hotel by Christopher Bush

— A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey

— Mystery at Lynden Sands by JJ Connington

— And Being Dead by Margaret Erskine

— The Crime Coast by Elizabeth Gill

— The Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers

— Death at the Bar by Ngaio Marsh

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