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There are spoilers in this episode for the titles listed below.

Mentioned in this episode:

— Death in the Dentist's Chair by Molly Thynne

— The Uncertain Glory by Molly Thynne

— "Death Sits in the Dentist's Chair" by Cornell Woolrich, collected in Darkness at Dawn: Early Suspense Classics

— Murder Underground by Mavis Doriel Hay

— One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie

— Death of a Dentist by M.C. Beaton

— Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie

— "The Cornish Mystery" by Agatha Christie, collected in Poirot's Early Cases

— "The Wrong Problem" by John Dickson Carr, collected in The Third Bullet and Other Stories

— Antidote to Venom by Freeman Wills Crofts

— Sweet Danger by Margery Allingham

— The Fashion in Shrouds by Margery Allingham

— The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne

— "The Honour of Israel Gow" by G.K. Chesterton, collected in The Innocence of Father Brown

— "In the Teeth of the Evidence" by Dorothy L. Sayers, collected in In the Teeth of the Evidence

— Balachander, N et al. “Evolution of forensic odontology: An overview.” Journal of pharmacy & bioallied sciences vol. 7,Suppl 1 (2015): S176-80

— Bishop M. The influence of 'Golden Age' authors of detective fiction, in particular, D. L. Sayers, on the public opinion of dentists and dentistry. Br Dent J. 2024 Jul;237(1):51-54

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