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Oxford vs Cambridge

Why do these two historic university cities appear in so many murder mysteries?

Why do these two historic university cities appear in so many murder mysteries?

Books mentioned in this episode:
— The Masters by C.P. Snow
— Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
— Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
— Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
— Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
— The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin
— The Cambridge Murders by Dilwyn Rees
— Death at the President’s Lodging by Michael Innes
— An Oxford Tragedy by J.C. Masterman
— Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay
— Murder at Cambridge by Q Patrick
— Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham
— The Incredible Crime by Lois Austen-Leigh
— Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter
— Trick of the Dark by Val McDermid
— Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
— Cambridge Blue by Alison Bruce
— Fall of Angels by Barbara Cleverly
— Invitation to Die by Barbara Cleverly
— James Runcie's Granchester stories
— Rory Clement's Tom Wilde series

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