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In GAD We Trust – Episode 11: The Tropes of Detective Fiction [w’ James Scott Byrnside]

October 10, 2020August 5, 2025 / JJ / 27 Comments

The time has come again for some nerdy Golden Age Detection podcasting, and James Scott Byrnside is here to oblige with a discussion about some of the tropes we know and love from GAD fiction

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#702: Shedunnit x The Invisible Event – Locked Room Mysteries

September 16, 2020September 16, 2020 / JJ / 6 Comments

You’re doubtless aware of the superbly wide-ranging Golden Age-focussed Shedunnit podcast run by Caroline Crampton, and I was delighted to be asked to contribute to an episode about locked room mysteries and impossible crimes. The results are now online for your listening pleasure.

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In GAD We Trust – Episode 10: Genre and Detective Fiction [w’ Ryan O’Neill]

August 1, 2020July 31, 2020 / JJ / 29 Comments

A final (for now) podcast episode before I head off on hiatus, this time discussing the idea of genre with author Ryan O’Neill.

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Spoiler Warning – The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) by Agatha Christie

July 25, 2020July 27, 2025 / JJ / 58 Comments

A podcast episode a couple of months short of 100 years in the making, we are here today to discuss The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) by Agatha Christie.

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In GAD We Trust – Episode 8: Uncovering Long-Forgotten Short Stories + Bodies from the Library 3 (2020) ed. Tony Medawar [w’ Tony Medawar]

July 4, 2020August 31, 2021 / JJ / 36 Comments

Today was due to have been the sixth (sixth!) Bodies from the Library conference at the British Library but, for obvious reasons, it’s not. I can’t, alas, give you a whole day of GAD-based discussion, but I can at least fill an hour with someone from that line-up of exceptionally knowledgable people, Tony Medawar.

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In GAD We Trust – Episode 7: The Father Brown Stories of G.K. Chesterton [w’ John @ Countdown John’s Christie Journal]

June 20, 2020February 1, 2025 / JJ / 24 Comments

This week on my Lockdown Podcast In GAD We Trust, the cream of G.K. Chesterton’s stories about his crime-solving Roman Catholic priest as selected by John who blogs at Countdown John’s Christie Journal.

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In GAD We Trust – Episode 6: Detective Fiction is Comedy [w’ Alasdair Beckett-King]

June 6, 2020February 17, 2023 / JJ / 22 Comments

It’s long been a tenet of mine that detective fiction and comedy have a great deal in common, and to pursue that this week via the medium of podcasting I’ve enlisted the help of comedian Alasdair Beckett-King.

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In GAD We Trust – Episode 5: GAD in the Time of COVID-19 [w’ Brad @ AhSweetMysteryBlog]

May 23, 2020June 2, 2020 / JJ / 18 Comments

As the COVID-19 pandemic rolls into its 348th week, Brad from AhSweetMysteryBlog is here with some salutary advice.

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In GAD We Trust – Episode 4: Magic, Mummery, and Misdirection [w’ John @ Pretty Sinister Books]

May 9, 2020June 2, 2020 / JJ / 21 Comments

Lockdown rolls on, and so does my GAD-focussed podcast, which this time around sees me picking the brains of John Norris who blogs at Pretty Sinister Books and is surely one of the most widely-read members of our GAD coterie.

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In GAD We Trust – Episode 3: British Library Crime Classics and Mortmain Hall (2020) by Martin Edwards [w’ Martin Edwards]

April 25, 2020June 2, 2020 / JJ / 7 Comments

Here we go again, podcast time! And this week I’m joined by President of the Detection Club and recent recipient of the Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Dagger, Martin Edwards.

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