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...

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. 

Welcome to the Whodunnit Dinners blog, which runs alongside the Whodunnit Dinners podcast, now proudly in the midst of its second season! The podca...

Welcome to the blog post that accompanies Whodunnit Dinners podcast #6.  We generally recommend you listen to the podcast first - so this blog is m...

This blog is a side dish to our delicious new Whodunnitdinners podcast. In episode #3, Katie talks about ‘The Dirty Streets of Heaven,’ by Tad Williams, a genre-bending book which is an unusual combination of fantasy and murder mystery. If you want to hear more about the angel Bobby Dollar and his quest to solve the mystery of why the souls of the dead are disappearing, check out the podcast.  If, however, you want to learn more about burritos and what the heaven and earth they have to do with the book, hang around here!

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. 

You want a Halloween themed dessert with the wow factor, but don't have lots of time on your hands? These four will do the job. We reckon the first one will take you all of 60 seconds...

Whether you are enjoying the festivities of Halloween with your family or creating a dessert to accompany our Halloween themed game 'Spectre at the Feast', these skeleton bone meringues will go down murderously well!