Episode Details

Please join me for a long-awaited guided tour of the role that dogs play in detective fiction.

Books mentioned:

— My Lady's Money by Wilkie Collins

— The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

— A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

— The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

— The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

— The Mystery of the Black Dog by Ellery Queen

— "The Oracle of the Dog" by G.K. Chesterton

— Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie

— Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie

— Peril at End House by Agatha Christie

— Bats in the Belfry by E.C.R. Lorac

— The Dog It Was That Died by E.C.R. Lorac

— The Kennel Murder Case by SS Van Dine

— Murder Underground by Mavis Doriel Hay

— The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

— The Case of the Howling Dog by Erle Stanley Gardner

— Love Lies Bleeding by Edmund Crispin

— Even Dogs in the Wild by Ian Rankin

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