In GAD We Trust
Episodes
In GAD We Trust – Episode 36: Building the Perfect Pastiche, via The Return of Moriarty (2025) by Jack Anderson [w’ Jack Anderson]
13 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A bit of pre-Christmas podcasting for you, as I sit down with Jack Anderson, author of The Return of Moriarty (2025) which, honestly now, is probably ...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 35: The Murder Game: Play, Puzzles and the Golden Age (2025) by John Curran [w’ John Curran]
13 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nothing for a year, then two in consecutive weekends — it’s a podcastpalooza! 11th September 2025 saw the publication not just of Miss Win...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 34: Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife (2025) and The (Expanded) Golden Age of Murder (2025) by Martin Edwards [w’ Martin Edwards]
06 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I promised you more podcast, and wouldn’t have blamed you for not believing me; but more podcast there is today for your listening pleasure. Mar...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 33: Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness (2024) by Mark Aldridge [w’ Mark Aldridge]
07 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Another surprise episode of my increasingly-irregular podcast In GAD We Trust, this time featuring Mark Aldridge in discussion about his new book, Aga...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 32: The Revival of James Ronald [w’ Chris Verner]
16 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Five and a half years ago I tracked down and read an obscure novelette by long-forgotten British pulp writer James Ronald, which set me on the trail o...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 31: Bodies from the Library 6 (2023) ed. Tony Medawar [w’ Tony Medawar]
02 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Another year, another Bodies from the Library collection — incredibly, the sixth — and another opportunity to sit down with Tony Medawar a...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 30: The Joys of Detective Fiction + Montgomery Bonbon: Death at the Lighthouse (2023) by Alasdair Beckett-King [w’ Alasdair Beckett-King]
07 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The return of my In GAD We Trust podcast, and a welcome return for Alasdair Beckett-King, comedian and now children’s author. Since last appeari...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 29: Writing The Red Death Murders (2022)
19 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
All good things come to an end, and so does my podcast; started in the first UK lockdown and hard to justify now that lockdowns are well and truly ove...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 28: Writing Mysteries for Younger Readers [w’ M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman]
12 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There is a Golden Age of detective fiction going on at the very moment, but because most of what’s being written is aimed at 8-to-12 year-olds, ...
In GAD We Trust – Bonus Episode! The Highs and Lows of Jonathan Creek [w’ Nick Cardillo]
25 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, Nick Cardillo and I discussed the impossible crime on screen, at the end of which he casually asked about Jonathan Creek like I’d be ...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 27: The Impossible Crime on Screen [w’ Nick Cardillo]
18 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Does In GAD We Trust have a hype train? If so, stoke the conductor, point the rails, wake up the boiler, and do other train things, because episode 27...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 26: The Maxims of Misdirection
04 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I’m as surprised as you to see a new episode of my In GAD We Trust podcast, especially as I said on Thursday that there was unlikely to be one t...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 25: Fair Play and the Nomenclature of Golden Age Detective Fiction [w’ Scott K. Ratner]
21 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gutsy of me to suggest, on my site dedicated to the discussion of Golden Age detective fiction, that a lot of the terminology used to talk about these...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 24: Bodies from the Library 4 (2021) ed. Tony Medawar + The International Agatha Christie Festival 2021 + Even More! [w’ Tony Medawar]
07 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Prepare yourself for what might just be the most jam-packed episode of In GAD We Trust to date — when you sit down with Tony Medawar, there̵...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 23: What’s in a Watson? [w’ Caroline Crampton]
10 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The companion of the fictional detective — the “stupid friend” as Ronald Knox styled them — is something I have spent far too ...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 22: On Making a Good First Impression [w’ Sergio @ Tipping My Fedora + Brad @ AhSweetMysteryBlog]
26 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After the interruption to the schedule of two weeks ago, here’s another In GAD We Trust podcast — and given the topic of ‘Making a G...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 21: The Diversity of Approaches to Detective Fiction [w’ Martin Edwards]
29 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The detective fiction genre is built around the essential structure of a crime, an investigation of that crime, and the revelation of the guilty party...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 20: The Dr. Thorndyke Stories of R. Austin Freeman [w’ Dolores Gordon-Smith]
13 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In January of last year, I read my first R. Austin Freeman novel, little suspecting that it was to be the first step along a road of sheer delight. An...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 19: Reissue! Repackage! Repackage! [w’ Various People]
27 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the back of the Reprint of the Year Award run by Kate at CrossExaminingCrime, I thought it might be interesting to see what those of us who submit ...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 18: The ‘No Footprints’ Impossible Crime [w’ Tom Mead]
13 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For a blog set up with the implicit aim to explore the impossible crime in fiction, it has to be said that impossibilities have been rather thin on th...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 17: The Hardboiled Golden Age on Page and Screen [w’ Sergio @ Tipping My Fedora]
16 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After watching detective fiction play out in the drawing rooms of ivory towers for too long, I’m heading into the mean streets to get some greas...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 16: Modern Writers in the Golden Age Tradition [w’ Puzzle Doctor @ In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel]
02 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s get the new year off to a happy start by showing some appreciation for contemporary authors who make life difficult for themselves by upho...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 15: Criticising the Golden Age [w’ Kate @ CrossExaminingCrime]
19 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
‘Tis the season to be jolly, so I’m delighted to welcome Kate from CrossExaminingCrime back to my Golden Age detective fiction podcast so ...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 14: The Island of Coffins (2021) by John Dickson Carr + The 9.50 Up Express (2021) by Freeman Wills Crofts [w’ Tony Medawar]
05 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We’re all prone to speculate at times about how wonderful it would be to discover a previously-unpublished work by a beloved Golden Age author, ...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 13: Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World (2020) by Mark Aldridge [w’ Mark Aldridge]
21 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This year’s celebrations of the centenary of Hercule Poirot’s debut and, arguably, the dawn of the Golden Age of Detection have obviously ...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 12: Appeal and Deception in Golden Age Detective Fiction [w’ Scott K. Ratner]
07 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You thought this podcast was nerdy before? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Today we welcome the GADisphere’s own Scott K. Ratner, and th...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 11: The Tropes of Detective Fiction [w’ James Scott Byrnside]
10 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The time has come again for some nerdy Golden Age Detection podcasting, and James Scott Byrnside is here to oblige with a discussion about some of the...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 10: Genre and Detective Fiction [w’ Ryan O’Neill]
01 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A final (for now) podcast episode before I head off on hiatus, this time discussing the idea of genre with author Ryan O’Neill. This was going t...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 9: Japanese-English Translation + The Honjin Murders (1946) by Seishi Yokomizo [w’ Louise Heal Kawai]
18 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A seam of superb Japanese detective novels and short stories have crossed the language barrier in recent years, teaching even the most culturally igno...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 8: Uncovering Long-Forgotten Short Stories + Bodies from the Library 3 (2020) ed. Tony Medawar [w’ Tony Medawar]
04 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today was due to have been the sixth (sixth!) Bodies from the Library conference at the British Library but, for obvious reasons, it’s not. I ...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 7: The Father Brown Stories of G.K. Chesterton [w’ John @ Countdown John’s Christie Journal]
20 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week on my Lockdown Podcast In GAD We Trust, the cream of G.K. Chesterton’s stories about his crime-solving Roman Catholic priest as select...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 6: Detective Fiction is Comedy [w’ Alasdair Beckett-King]
06 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s long been a tenet of mine that detective fiction and comedy have a great deal in common, and to pursue that this week via the medium of pod...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 5: GAD in the Time of COVID-19 [w’ Brad @ AhSweetMysteryBlog]
23 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the COVID-19 pandemic rolls into its 348th week, Brad from AhSweetMysteryBlog is here with some salutary advice. See, back in March, Brad made a gr...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 4: Magic, Mummery, and Misdirection [w’ John @ Pretty Sinister Books]
09 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lockdown rolls on, and so does my GAD-focussed podcast, which this time around sees me picking the brains of John Norris who blogs at Pretty Sinister ...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 3: British Library Crime Classics and Mortmain Hall (2020) by Martin Edwards [w’ Martin Edwards]
25 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here we go again, podcast time! And this week I’m joined by President of the Detection Club and recent recipient of the Crime Writers’ A...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 2: Inverted Mysteries [w’ Aidan @ Mysteries Ahoy!]
11 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Another week in lockdown, another episode of my new “hopefully this will distract you” Golden Age Detection podcast, In GAD We Trust. Toda...
In GAD We Trust – Episode 1: Female Sleuths [w’ Kate @ CrossExaminingCrime]
04 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You’re stuck at home, you’re bored, you could really do with a new, Golden Age Detection-focussed podcast to help pass the time, eh? Let&#...