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2025 Review & Holiday Quiz
Episode 125
2025 has been a great year on the pod and in this episode we look back at this successful and surprising stretch of reading and collaborating across …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
LTP Festive: Dancing Dan's Christmas (1932)
Episode 124
Damon Runyan's Broadway stories are characterised by crooks, rogues and revelers with hearts of gold. In "Dancing Dan's Christmas" from 1932, we see …
10 months ago
LTP Festive: Waxworks (1930)
Episode 123
It's Christmas Eve in Oldhampton and as residents enjoy what's left of their pre-holiday errands, cub reporter Sonia is looking to eschew the society…
10 months ago
Killer in the Rain (1935)
Episode 122
Before Philip Marlowe there was... "shamus"... aka Proto-Marlowe!
In this episode, Scott goes on solo assignment through the pages of Black Mask magaz…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Berlin Game (1983)
Episode 121
In this, his first Bernard Samson narrative, Len Deighton gives us the story of a weary MI6 veteran who's pulled back into danger when a suspected mo…
11 months ago
LTP 007: Scorpius (1988)
Episode 120
From a post 9/11 framework, some could read John Gardner's Scorpius as chilling and prophetic. In the year of its publication, however, it was aiming…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Blood Sugar (2019)
Episode 119
It's Halloween on Yellow Street and outcast Robbie Glinton has a plan for revenge. Let down by teachers, abandoned by parents and ignored by "the man…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
LTP 007: Win, Lose or Die (1989)
Episode 118
The John Gardner sweep continues with "Win, Lose or Die", the eighth continuation novel in his cycle of Bond adventures. With this story, Gardner kee…
1 year ago
Maigret and the Ghost (1964) w/ The Book Graveyard
Episode 117
In this special episode, Nick Anderson from The Book Graveyard lends his enthusiasm and rides sidecar through our exploration of "Maigret and the Gho…
1 year ago
LTP Noir: Nora Prentiss (1947)
Episode 116
Dr Richard Talbot: "I'm writing a paper on ailments of the heart."
Nora Prentiss: "A paper? I could write a book!"
LTP Noir is back with "oomph" and a …
1 year ago