The Servant Problem

How the interwar servant shortage changed detective fiction.

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Books mentioned in this episode:
Mrs Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light
— The Psychology of the Servant Problem by Violet M Firth
Trent's Last Case by EC Bentley
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
— "The Invisible Man" by G.K. Chesterton, collected in The Innocence of Father Brown
Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie
— "Miss Marple Tells a Story" by Agatha Christie, collected in Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
— "The Case of the Perfect Maid" by Agatha Christie, collected in Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
— "The Dream" by Agatha Christie, collected in The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories
— "Greenshaw's Folly" by Agatha Christie, collected in Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
The Wintringham Mystery by Anthony Berkeley
Why Shoot A Butler? by Georgette Heyer
Frequent Hearses by Edmund Crispin
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L Sayers
Who Killed the Curate? by Joan Coggin
The Hollow by Agatha Christie
A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
Mrs McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie
After the Funeral by Agatha Christie
A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie
4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
Simisola by Ruth Rendell

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