In the spirit of cozy mysteries, today’s episode doesn’t just do a deep dive into a murder, we’re going to meet one of England’s most premiere detectives of the 1950s. An eleven-year-old girl who lives in her family’s crumbling mansion, known as Buckshaw in the town of Bishop’s Lacey. She has a passion for poison’s and dreams of growing up to be a chemist. But in the meantime, she solves murders.
And today we’ll be looking at the very first case this Sherlock-level savant ever solved.
When Flavia de Luce finds a man murdered in her family’s cucumber patch, she knows she has to find out why. But when her father is wrongly arrested for the man’s murder, it becomes a matter of life and death.
Flavia has to use every resource at her disposal, and all of her wits, to solve the case before the police wrongfully convict her father. But solving the murder means Flavia has to confront some difficult truths about her father—and the secret he’s been keeping from all three of his daughters.
Today's episode is based on The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley. Today's ad is based on Stephen King’s The Shining.
Reader, I Murdered Him is a true crime podcast for people with too much anxiety to enjoy podcasts about actual crimes. Every week we’ll do a deep dive into a murder, cult, serial killer, or other noteworthy crime, but with a twist. The crimes on Reader, I Murdered Him aren’t ripped from the headlines. They’re ripped from the pages of newly released, noteworthy backlist, or timeless classic mystery, thriller, and horror novels.
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