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Death of the Reader

Join Flex and Herds as they take you on a Murder Mystery World Tour in Death of the Reader. From classic British puzzles in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction to the weirdest of foreign detective fiction, explore everything in the grizzly world of the "locked room". Each week we"ll feature academics, authors and more as we trace the influences of the genre around the world.

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Death of the Reader UNDEAD - 15 February 2024

Death of the Reader ·

2024/02/15

Welcome to your Murder Mystery Detour! Once a whenever-we-can, Flex and Herds go live (or undead, as the case may be), to talk about their latest fixations in the crime fiction world, and we hear from you about yours! We're also joined by our editor, Cameron Furlong, producer Max Mahood, and feature an interview from Jonathan Chang. Our guests are Brydon Coverdale, Dinuka McKenzie, and Robert Connolly. This iteration, we spoke about: Good Old Colingwood Forever by Brydon Coverdale, winner of the

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25:23

EXTRA: Quintin Smith from People Make Games on Jubensha

Death of the Reader ·

2024/02/14

We talk with Quinns from People Make Games to about the Mystery Role-Play craze that has taken hold of China; Jubensha. What sets it apart from the Mystery Dinner Parties that accompany every crime fiction festival and book club? We also speak about role-play in the English speaking world, the complications of safety tools, and more of Quinns' experience playing Jubensha during his investigation. Make sure you also catch Quinns' work on Shut Up & Sit Down, and his new TTRPG channel Quinn's

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30:00

Who Shot Mr. Burns? from The Simpsons - Part One

Death of the Reader ·

2024/02/11

We discuss the season finale of The Simpsons sixth season, and its infamous puzzle. Springfield Elementary is almost destroyed in an eruption, but fortunately, it's an eruption of oil, so they're wealthy now. At least, they would be, if Mr. Burns wasn't up to his antics, preparing to destroy all that is good in the world. Nobody in Springfield is free from his cruel machinations, so when he dies, we shouldn't be surprised, but the killer has the perfect alibi. Can you solve this mystery? Flex

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Review Season: Everyone by Benjamin Stevenson - 2023...

Death of the Reader ·

2024/02/08

Herds presents the much coveted Golden pants award straight from Sulari Gentill’s wardrobe to… Everyone, and by that we don’t mean the heart-warming everyone, as in everyone’s a winner, but rather the Everyone series by Benjamin Stevenson. That’s right, two books can share a placement, as long as they’re written by the same author. There was much internal debate on the Death of the Reader team as to how we could possibly choose one over the other, but with the power of a year long symmetry and some

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5:46

Review Season: Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz - 2023...

Death of the Reader ·

2024/02/06

Review Season is about recommendations. You don’t need someone to recommend you Sherlock Holmes. Whether or not you have read Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories, watched one of the many renditions, or experienced some form of pastiche, there is no doubt that some comparison to Sherlock Holmes worms its way into your life. Especially if you said something painfully obvious. What is far, far less common, is work endorsed by the Conan Doyle Estate. Coming in 2nd Place for our 2023 Recommendations is

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6:20

Review Season: The Red Death Murders by Jim Noy -...

Death of the Reader ·

2024/02/04

There are three entries here and only one can take back the coveted Sulari Gentill prize, winning for themselves eternal glory and golden dance pants to take home. In the bronze position, standing tall head and shoulders over a dozen others, the bloody, the historical, The Red Death Murders written by Jim Noy. Noy’s work brings together three of Herds favourite aspects of historical fiction. You’ve got your gothic horror, your old timey medieval politics, and your elaborate medieval castles. Boy

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Review Season: Glass Onion by Rian Johnson - 2023 4th...

Death of the Reader ·

2024/02/01

It’s time for the controversial entry in our list of high class detective fiction, there’s always one. Usually any films that we cover will be contentious in terms of placement, is it really fair to place a work of a visual medium in the same competition as some musty old books? Am I even qualified to talk about film theory? Well, I’ll have you know that I completed at least one, and I quote: “unspecified film studies unit” in the course of my school education, so I’m the most qualified person in

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5:19

Review Season: Eight Detectives by Alex Pavesi - 2023...

Death of the Reader ·

2024/01/30

Why read one detective story, when you could have eight? Coming in 5th Place on Review Season for our 2023 Recommendations is Alex Pavesi, with his debut mystery novel ‘Eight Detectives’. Released in 2020, the novel takes Alex’s background in mathematics, and questions the numerical principles that define the genre, except, that’s not quite the whole story.

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6:29

Review Season: The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K....

Death of the Reader ·

2024/01/28

To follow up the historical supernatural mayhem that is the Chinese Gold Murders I couldn’t think of a more opposite yet familiar companion novel than our sixth place winner. I’m proud to grant G.K Chesterton’s The Innocence of Father Brown this position in our rankings. Father Brown is a detective who we’ve had literally tens of requests to cover, and that’s pretty high for us. He’s an unassuming father of the cloth, who uses a slow but determined application of observation and light questioning in

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6:13

Review Season: The Chinese Gold Murders by Robert van...

Death of the Reader ·

2024/01/25

We’re officially in the upper half of the entries and it is with no small amount of nepotism that I would advocate to you a historical novel for seventh place. The Chinese Gold Murders, by Robert van Gulik occupy a bizarre place in the history of Chinese crime fiction, in that the credited author is as much an author as an adapter of foreign fiction. The myth goes that Robert, a Dutch diplomat on a mission to China, found a collection of 18th century Chinese murder mysteries, set in the Tang dynasty

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5:56

Review Season: Silent Night by Sophie Hannah - 2023...

Death of the Reader ·

2024/01/23

Smack bang in the middle of our list is a novel that captured my heart when I first read it for its fun take on a distinguished no-introductions-needed character, in eighth place the always lovely Sophie Hannah’s Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night, which we covered on the show quite late in our year. Silent Night is a new and ambitious look into the life and times of Poirot and is the fifth in a series of revival novels which we sought out after tackling Anthony Horowitz’s acclaimed

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5:12

Review Season: The Mysterious Case of the Alperton...

Death of the Reader ·

2024/01/21

Mystery always likes a new subgenre to keep things interesting, and over the past few years, a reimagining of ‘found footage’ storytelling has been working its way to the core of the whodunnit, championed by one author in particular. You’re listening to Death of the Reader, it’s review season, and breaking ground on our single digit recommendations is Janice Hallet, with her 2023 novel ‘The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels’.

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Review Season: Death in the House of Rain by Szu Yen...

Death of the Reader ·

2024/01/18

Coming in at tenth place is one spooky entry, it sports a lively cast of college aged characters, a pair of gruesome parallel cases to solve, and a setting that is elevated by the very house that makes up its title. This is, Death in the House of Rain by Szu Yen Lin, Taiwanese murder mystery author. Out the gate I’d like to tell you that I can easily recommend this novel if you’re looking to sate your desire for Eastern murder mystery, particularly if you enjoy the various insane houses that Yukito

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Review Season: The Mill House Murders by Yukito...

Death of the Reader ·

2024/01/16

In 2021, I said that Yukito Ayatsuji achieved a rare feat, with his first entry in the mansion murder series. As I described, he bested one of the most influential mysteries of all time in his own pastiche of it. Arguably, with the sequel, Ayatsuji did it again, although, I think the accomplishment is a little more manageable this time, as he lands in 11th place on Review Season. The Mill House Murders takes the core puzzle of the masked man mystery, brings the ghostly hand of his architect

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Review Season: Death and the Seaside by Alison Moore...

Death of the Reader ·

2024/01/14

Coming in 12th Place this Review Season, is our biggest outlier for 2023, Death and the Seaside by Alison Moore. Not a murder mystery, as such, but still a mysterious metafictional tale of a writer, her landlord, her character, and their trauma. We came to it on the recommendation of Alex Pavesi, exploring the ways it shaped his novel ‘Eight Detectives’. Bonnie Falls is a writer, recently moved out of home, recently dropped out of university, recently moved into the ground-floor apartment owned by

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5:41

Review Season: The Inugami Curse by Kon Ichikawa -...

Death of the Reader ·

2024/01/11

It's Review Season, and in 13th place, we’ve positioned several of Japan’s most renowned creative houses, with both film adaptations of ‘The Inugami Clan’. Author Seishi Yokomizo continues to haunt japanese mystery fiction, with spinoffs and adaptations of his leading detective, Kosuke Kindaichi, continuing production over forty years after his passing. Kon Ichikawa was perhaps more prolific, even if his comparisons to other contemporaneous Japanese directors are less universal.

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Review Season: Death Comes to Marlow by Robert...

Death of the Reader ·

2024/01/09

Is a murder mystery just a verbose cryptic crossword? Fans of Caroline Crampton’s excellent ‘Shedunnit’ podcast, might remember her episode on the topic from 2021. It turned me towards Robort Thorogood’s ‘The Marlow Murder Club’, published just a few months earlier. The novel follows crossword enthusiast Judith, and her quest for clues and friendship following a murder she witnesses whilst out on a swim. We didn’t end up fitting it into our 2021 run, so when the sequel launched this year, I knew we

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Review Season: Decapitation by NISIOISIN - 2023 15th...

Death of the Reader ·

2024/01/07

What do you get when you take a classic Christie style murder mystery complete with a cast of characters invited by a rich benefactor, an island hemmed in from all sides by storms, and an absurdly powerful detective who swoops in at the last moment to blow everything else away, and combine all of that with a stylistically over the top pseudo-autobiographical musing on the nature of intellectual genius itself? I’d say you get Decapitation by NISIOISIN, but that couldn’t quite do this amazingly nerdy

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Everyone on this Train is a Suspect by Benjamin...

Death of the Reader ·

2023/12/31

We discuss chapters 28-36 of Benjamin Stevenson's 'Everyone on this Train is a Suspect', the second novel in his 'Everyone' series. A stop-off in Coober Pedy sees Ernest on a car-chase with a train, hurtling down the track after the enormous iron horse. Fortunately, the cows are on his side, and he is back on the case to identify the killer still on the train. Two bodies, two riddles, two methods of death, where are the parallels? With Alan's botched denouement out of the way, will the police even

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30:20

EXTRA: Jack Heath on 'Kill Your Husbands'

Death of the Reader ·

2023/12/27

We talk with Aussie author Jack Heath about his new horror-comedy murder mystery, 'Kill Your Husbands'. When Jack Heath isn't writing awesome stories for kids, or horrifying crime-solving-cannibal stories for adults, he likes to take relaxing breaks and write about deeply traumatised lesbians in life-threatening situations. I wonder how he relaxes on holidays? In Kill Your Husbands, Kiara Lui and Elise Glyk have rebuilt a strong relationship following the septic-tank horrors of 'Kill Your Brother'

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