Death of the Reader

About Death of the Reader

Join Flex and Herds as they take you on a Murder Mystery World Tour in Death of the Reader. From classic British puzzles in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction to the weirdest of foreign detective fiction, explore everything in the grizzly world of the 'locked room'. Each week we'll feature academics, authors and more as we trace the influences of the genre around the world.

Publisher

2SER 107.3FM

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Apr 2019

Latest episode

15 Dec 2024

Latest episodes

1 of 364 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   15 Dec 2024

   Lorelei and the Laser Eyes by Simogo - Part Three

   Hosts discuss the climactic puzzles and revelations of Simogo's 'Lorelei and the Laser Eyes', joined by author Iain Ryan to explore the dark underbelly of Fantasyland's construction on the 1980s Gold Coast.

2. 

   8 Dec 2024

   Lorelei and the Laser Eyes by Simogo - Part Two

   Hosts discuss Lorelei and the Laser Eyes and The Last Illusion of Paige White, exploring mysteries and fragmented narratives that challenge the reader's perceptions.

3. 

   1 Dec 2024

   Lorelei and the Laser Eyes by Simogo - Part One

   Game designer and novelist Vanessa McCausland and hosts discuss the puzzle-box mystery of Simogo's 'Lorelei and the Laser Eyes' and her latest novel 'The Last Illusion of Paige White'.

Inside a recent episode

Sins for Father Knox by Josef Škvorecký - Part One

Published 30 Oct 2019 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Yeah, look at it really. I think that what we used to see would be, you know, the presentation, you know, particularly in the early stages of the genre probably up until the Second World War, was that, you know, complex social problems could be solved by the detective, so the detective would go out and, you know, resolve these very complex, you know, murders crimes, you know, which was sort of a metaphor for, you know, the complexities of society and the industrial age. But in the post -war period, those problems, you know, became less easy to solve. […]

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