Episode Details

What was the first murder mystery, really?

No major spoilers about clues or endings in this episode. However, there is some mention or discussion of the books listed below.

Sources and further information:

— The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

— Partners In Crime by Agatha Christie

— A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

— The Mystery Of A Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume

— The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

— L’Affaire Lerouge by Emile Gaboriau

— Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

— The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale

— Bleak House by Charles Dickens

— "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allen Poe

— The Omnibus of Crime (1929) edited by Dorothy L. Sayers

— "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allen Poe

— "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allen Poe

— "The Imp of the Perverse" by Edgar Allen Poe

— Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

— The Late Scholar by Jill Paton Walsh

— Uncle Silas by Sheridan Le Fanu

— "A Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess" by Sheridan Le Fanu

— The Aeneid by Virgil

— Uncle Silas by Sheridan Le Fanu

— The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie

— Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

—“Who Wrote the First Whodunit?” by Steven Saylor

— “Oedipus on