Book Club: Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers

This is the Shedunnit Book Club companion episode for January 2023, in which we are reading Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers. There is a non-spoilery plot summary included (ie no major clues or twists), but you've been warned! I’ll see you in the Shedunnit forum for our fully spoilered discussion thread on 31st January.

Further reading and listening:

— The Complete Annotated Whose Body

— An interesting article on Sayers and anti semitism

— The Mutual Admiration Society episode with Mo Moulton

— The Room of One’s Own episode with Francesca Wade

— Primer: Strong Poison

— Primer: Busman’s Honeymoon

— Dorothy L. Sayers Solves Her Mystery (Queens of Crime at War 6)

— The Challenge of Dorothy L. Sayers

— Bonus Episode: Eric Sandberg on Dorothy L. Sayers

Sign up via email to be alerted when the watching party is about to start — it's happening on 29th January at 5pm GMT. Suggestions for what we watch very welcome in this forum thread.

In February we are reading Death of Jezebel by Christianna Brand and in March we’ll be trying Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay.

I'm going to open the voting on what we read for April (Mysteries in Translation theme) very soon, so if there's anything you’d like to see on the shortlist then please do post about it in the forum or email me on caroline@shedunnitshow.com.

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