by The Stay At Home Creative
A real podcast about fake crimes for book lovers! Love books but wish your book reviews sounded more like true crime podcasts? Every week Reader, I Murdered Him gives one mystery, thriller, or horror novel the true crime treatment. But the scariest thing about this podcast is that it isn’t spoiler free. So listen at your own risk.
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January 10, 2024
<p>Today’s episode is based on the book <em>Homecoming </em>by Kate Morton.</p> <p>In the small town of Tambilla, in the Adelaide Hills, on Christmas Eve of 1959, the Turner family was discovered resting around a picnic blanket by the creek on the edge of their property by a mail carrier who was cutting through to let his horse drink from the cool water before making the trek back home.</p> <p>But as he approached Isabel Turner and her children, he got the uncanny feeling that something was wrong. They were too still to have been sleeping. None of them were moving at all. Not even the young children—who everyone knows are restless sleepers. And the infant, the one Isabel had given birth to just a short time ago, swinging in a crib they’d hung from a sturdy branch of a tree, isn’t cooing or shifting.</p> <p>And before he gets close enough to know, he <em>knows</em>. </p> <p>Every member of the Turner family, young and old, is dead.</p> <p><br></p> <p><em>Reader, I Murdered Him </em>is a true crime podcast for book lovers. Every week we’ll do a deep dive into a murder, cult, serial killer, or other noteworthy crime, but with a twist. The crimes on <em>Reader, I Murdered Him</em> aren’t ripped from the headlines. They’re ripped from the pages of newly released, noteworthy backlist, or timeless classic mystery, thriller, and horror novels.</p> <p><strong>Want to get in touch?</strong> send a message to <a href="mailto:readerimurderedhimpod@gmail.com">readerimurderedhimpod@gmail.com</a> or follow me @the_stay_at_home_creative on IG.</p> <p><strong>Find Reader, I Murdered Him on Anchor: </strong><a href="https://anchor.fm/readerimurderedhim">https://anchor.fm/readerimurderedhim</a></p>
January 3, 2024
<p>Today’s episode is based on the mystery short story “The Dauphin’s Doll” by Ellery Queen.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Who doesn’t love a gentleman thief? The kind of coldhearted, calculating criminal that really just wants to bruise your ego and prove to everyone that they’re the smartest person in the room—even when going toe to toe with some of history’s greatest investigative minds. </p> <p><br></p> <p>What’s not to love.</p> <p><br></p> <p>And for five years, Comus was the name on every investigator’s mind. Particularly the young Ellery Queen. And for those five years, it seemed as though Comus would never be caught.</p> <p><br></p> <p>But all of that was about to change with the death of 78-year-old Cytherea Ypson. And Comus would find his five year string of successful heists brought low by a doll and a Christmas charity for orphans.</p> <p><br></p> <p><em>Reader, I Murdered Him </em>is a true crime podcast for book lovers. Every week we’ll do a deep dive into a murder, cult, serial killer, or other noteworthy crime, but with a twist. The crimes on <em>Reader, I Murdered Him</em> aren’t ripped from the headlines. They’re ripped from the pages of newly released, noteworthy backlist, or timeless classic mystery, thriller, and horror novels.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Want to get in touch?</strong> send a message to <a href="mailto:readerimurderedhimpod@gmail.com">readerimurderedhimpod@gmail.com</a> or follow me @the_stay_at_home_creative on IG.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Find Reader, I Murdered Him on Anchor: </strong><a href="https://anchor.fm/readerimurderedhim">https://anchor.fm/readerimurderedhim</a></p>
December 31, 2023
<p>Today’s episode is based on the noir short “The Killer Christian” by Andrew Klavan.</p> <p>Everyone knows the story of the final shootout between Sarkesian and Billy Shine, better known as “The Death” that fateful Christmas Eve night above the Mysterious Bookshop.</p> <p>At the time, most of the coverage of this event had been focused on how the shootout fit into the bigger picture of gang violence in New York. Reporters were hyper focused on how this was just another example of La Cosa Nostra’s weakening hold on their territory and how other gangs were starting to move in.</p> <p>And the coverage that wasn’t focused on that was focused on the great betrayal of Sarkesian and the mob boss Picarone’s response. Turning the shootout into a metaphor for the underworld’s underlying tensions and shifting loyalties. </p> <p>But none of these stories truly understood what happened that night when Sarkesian met Billy Shine. And it wasn’t until an expose by journalist Andrew Klavan that the real story would come out. And that’s the story that we’ll be hearing today.</p> <p><br></p> <p><em>Reader, I Murdered Him </em>is a true crime podcast for book lovers. Every week we’ll do a deep dive into a murder, cult, serial killer, or other noteworthy crime, but with a twist. The crimes on <em>Reader, I Murdered Him</em> aren’t ripped from the headlines. They’re ripped from the pages of newly released, noteworthy backlist, or timeless classic mystery, thriller, and horror novels.</p> <p><strong>Want to get in touch?</strong> send a message to readerimurderedhimpod@gmail.com</p> <p><strong>Want to talk about today’s book?</strong> Join the bookclub! <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1202965-reader-i-murdered-him-podcast-book-club">https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1202965-reader-i-murdered-him-podcast-book-club</a></p> <p><strong>Want to know what we’re reading next?</strong> Follow the newsletter: <a href="https://thestayathomecreative.substack.com/">https://thestayathomecreative.substack.com</a></p> <p><strong>Find Reader, I Murdered Him on Anchor: </strong><a href="https://anchor.fm/readerimurderedhim">https://anchor.fm/readerimurderedhim</a></p>
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A real podcast about fake crimes for book lovers!
Love books but wish your book reviews sounded more like true crime podcasts? Every week Reader, I Murdered Him gives one mystery, thriller, or horror novel the true crime treatment. But the scariest thing about this podcast is that it isn’t spoiler free. So listen at your own risk.
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