Ep. 5: Wrench Revolver Dagger Rope

Everyone loves a good murder mystery. Well, a lot of us do, anyway. The evidence of this is found in the staying power of such authors as Agatha Christie and the board game CLUE, as well as a continued stream of shows and films such as the BBC series Sherlock, the US series Law and Order, and the 2017 version of Murder on the Orient Express and the film Knives Out, debuting at the end of this very month. But when we think of many of the tropes of the genre, from red herrings to strangers locked in at a dinner party, we get them from a certain time period, which has been dubbed 'The Golden Age of Detective Fiction'. Let's see what that era was, the origins of murder mysteries in general, and why so many of us, to this day, consider them ... super cool.