Murder Mystery Memos Blog

Each Whodunnit Dinners podcast delves into at least one murder mystery story and a corresponding meal that might sit alongside it. This time round, Katie introduced Helen to one of her all-time favourite murder mystery novels: Umberto Eco’s ‘The Name of the Rose’ and Helen dished up some modern plates that use black pudding to add flavour and texture. 

Hello from Whodunnit Dinners podcasters Helen and Katie: murder mystery dinner party game writers who like to chat about whodunnits and the food in...

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.

In this blog post we share a few extra details about, and links to, the books and foods we talk about in our Whodunnit Dinners podcast Halloween/Half Term Special. Stephen King and Agatha Christie are in the frame this time, providing seasonal thrills and chills.