The Lost Detectives Podcast

Episode 8 - The Materiality of Poison and Russia's Forgotten Female Crime Writers

56 min · 26 mei 2026
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Claire Whitehead talks to Dr Grace Docherty about the depiction of non-human things in early Russian crime fiction, including the role of poison in works by two female crime writers.

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