Murder Mystery Memos Blog

Podcast episode #6 of the second season focuses on the Japanese murder mystery classic: Murder at Mount Fuji, recently republished in the UK. In the book, a key plot point revolves around a dish that has been ordered from a local restaurant, called ‘gratin’ and in this blog post, we help you make your very own gratin - ideally without the accompanying dead body. 

In the latest podcast episode, Helen discusses Mike Philips, a Guyanese-British writer and his 1995 book, ‘An Image to Die For’. Meanwhile, in keeping with the West London based story, Katie shares a Caribbean jerk chicken recipe. Plus lots of chat. 

This blog post runs alongside the Whodunnit Dinners podcast: Season 2 Ep:4. In this episode, Katie introduces Helen to The Sign of the Four, the second novel featuring the global icon Sherlock Holmes.  The Sign of the Four, also called The Sign of Four, is a 1890 detective novel by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Helen meanwhile introduces Katie to recipes for cooking grouse. 

The chat on episode 2 in the second season of the podcast is all about the G K Chesterton murder mystery story collection ‘The Wisdom of Father Brown’ and then turns to food inspired by Chesterton’s series. In this blog post we will share suggestions for how to pair English beer and cheese in the style of the eponymous catholic priest of the early twentieth century. 

This blog post is merely a side dish to the main event - the latest Whodunnit Dinners podcast - which In Series 2 episode #1 centres around the latest film in the Knives Out franchise: Wake Up Dead Man. Rian Johnson is the acclaimed writer and director of the series and Daniel Craig reprises his role as master detective Benoit Blanc, who comes in to investigate the death of a divisive Catholic priest in rural New York against the backdrop of a missing inheritance.

Welcome to the blog that accompanies the Whodunnit Dinners podcast: a lighthearted podcast based around whodunnits and related dinners. During Ep #5, Katie takes us into Dorothy L Sayers’ first novel featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. ‘Whose Body?’ begins with the discovery of an unknown person’s naked body in a bath tub in London. And Helen tells you how to make kedgeree, without being naked or in a bath tub. 

Episode #2 of our WhodunnitDinners podcast is based around the Georges Simenon book, ‘Felicie’. This accompanying blog shares three recipes from nothern France that would not be out of place in the world of the charming detective and main character in the book Felicie: Inspector Maigret. 

What do you get if you cross a devilish whodunnit detective story set in mid-century Japan, two murder mystery dinner party writers and a plate of grilled chicken? Episode #1 of the Whodunnitdinners podcast, that’s what! In this blog post we share cooking tips and recipes to accompany the dishes discussed in the podcast. 

Ah, Valentine’s Day—a time for roses, chocolates, and…murder? Forget the candlelit dinners and predictable rom-com marathons. This year, why not t...

Murder and baking are a match made in heaven: dark and deadly meets light and fluffy. Here are 5 more cracking crossover ideas that we think are absolute showstoppers.

The word ‘detective’ was invented less than 200 years ago...by a crime writer. The writer Edgar Allen Poe is the first person known to use the wo...