Episode Details

Why do these two historic university cities appear in so many murder mysteries?

Books mentioned in this episode:

— The Masters by C.P. Snow

— Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

— Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

— Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm

— Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

— The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin

— The Cambridge Murders by Dilwyn Rees

— Death at the President’s Lodging by Michael Innes

— An Oxford Tragedy by J.C. Masterman (£825.00)

— Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay

— Murder at Cambridge by Q Patrick

— Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham

— The Incredible Crime by Lois Austen-Leigh

— Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter

— Trick of the Dark by Val McDermid

— Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

— Cambridge Blue by Alison Bruce

— Fall of Angels by Barbara Cleverly

— Invitation to Die by Barbara Cleverly

— James Runcie's Granchester stories

— Rory Clement's Tom Wilde series

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