Mitch Cullin's guest appearances

Mitch Cullin

Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column

The Baker Street Babes

Read On - The Audiobook Show from RNIB

Laurie R. King

David Mitchell

Bill Bryson

Margaret Atwood

Lyndsay Faye

Anthony Horowitz

Lee Child

Stella Rimington

Elif Shafak

Sarah Waters

Salman Rushdie

Bonnie MacBird

Ruth Rendell

Julian Barnes

Leslie Klinger

OwlTail

Stella Duffy

Mick Finlay

This week we’re examining some new cases inspired by classic detective series.    Mick Finlay introduces us to Arrowood, his down-at-heel Victorian gumshoe.   Stella Duffy confesses to being delighted and daunted at being asked to complete an unfinished mystery by Ngaio Marsh.   Mitch Cullin imagines what a 93-year old Sherlock Holmes might be working on.   NB Dixon reviews a new case for Hercule Poirot.  And we return to Mick Finlay for the Books of Your Life.

This week we’re examining some new cases inspired by classic detective series.    Mick Finlay introduces us to Arrowood, his down-at-heel Victorian gumshoe.   Stella Duffy confesses to being delighted and daunted at being asked to complete an unfinished mystery by Ngaio Marsh.   Mitch Cullin imagines what a 93-year old Sherlock Holmes might be working on.   NB Dixon reviews a new case for Hercule Poirot. And we return to Mick Finlay for the Books of Your Life.

228: Mick Finlay, Stella Duffy & Mitch Cullin

We sit down with Mitch Cullin, author of A Slight Trick of the Mind, which tells the story of a 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes' battle with his diminishing mind.It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind.But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn't even know he was asking-about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind's ability to know.You can buy the novel on Amazon: US [], UK []Music: Fifties Shopping Intro Extended by TeknoAXEBooks discussed:The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R King []The Casebook of Solar Pons by August Derleth []Embracing Defeat by John Dower []Sleep, Pale Sister by Joanne Harris []

We sit down with Mitch Cullin, author of A Slight Trick of the Mind, which tells the story of a 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes' battle with his diminishing mind. It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind.But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn't even know he was asking-about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind's ability to know. You can buy the novel on Amazon: US [], UK [] Music: Fifties Shopping Intro Extended by TeknoAXE Books discussed: The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R King [] The Casebook of Solar Pons by August Derleth [] Embracing Defeat by John Dower [] Sleep, Pale Sister by Joanne Harris []

Episode 56: A Slight Trick of the Mind with Mitch Cullin

045: A 2005 Conversation With Mitch Cullin and Laurie R. King