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Tea, Tonic & Toxin

Tea, Tonic & Toxin

Von: Carolyn Daughters & Sarah Harrison
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Tea, Tonic, and Toxin is a book club and podcast for people who love mysteries, thrillers, introspection, and good conversation. Each month, your hosts, Carolyn Daughters and Sarah Harrison, will discuss a game-changing mystery or thriller, starting in 1841 onward. Together, we’ll see firsthand how the genre evolvedAlong the way, we’ll entertain ideas, prospects, theories, doubts, and grudges, along with the occasional guest. And we hope to entertain you, dear friend. We want you to experience the joys of reading some of the best mysteries and thrillers ever written.

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  • The Great Game with Arvind Ethan David

    The Great Game with Arvind Ethan David
    Sep 22 2026
    Send us Fan MailArvind Ethan David returns to Tea, Tonic & Toxin to discuss The Great Game, his debut prose novel. This historical mystery and conspiracy thriller brings an Indian military veteran and law student into the worlds of A. J. Raffles, Sherlock Holmes, and a young Winston Churchill.A writer and producer whose work spans novels, graphic fiction, audio, television, film, and theatre, Arvind previously joined us to discuss his graphic adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s Trouble Is My Business.History of Mystery book selections available in our Amazon Storefront or support your favorite local bookstore in our Bookshop Storefront as well! Guests have their own list here!Or if you happen to be in lovely Roanoke, Virginia, stop in person at the BiblioPub to get your copy.For bonus episodes and to get all episodes first, join our Patreon community.Watch clips from our conversations with guests!Published in 2026, The Great Game is the debut prose novel by Arvind Ethan David.London, 1905. Balvinder dev Singh is an Indian military veteran, law student, and accomplice to the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles. When an imperialist general is brutally murdered in his Mayfair library, Bal and Raffles find themselves implicated in a series of killings that draws the attention of Scotland Yard—and Sherlock Holmes.As Bal attempts to clear his name, his friendship with the Irish violinist Maud Adler forces him to reconsider his relationship with Britain and its empire. What begins as a historical murder mystery expands into a conspiracy thriller and a provocative examination of loyalty, belonging, and colonial power.Arvind Ethan David is a writer and producer whose work spans novels, graphic fiction, audio, television, film, and theatre.His debut prose novel, The Great Game, is a historical mystery and conspiracy thriller set in London in 1905. The novel follows Balvinder dev Singh, an Indian military veteran and pupil barrister who supplements his income by committing burglaries with the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles. When their intended target is murdered, Bal and Raffles become entangled in a widening conspiracy involving Scotland Yard, an aging Sherlock Holmes, and an ambitious young Winston Churchill.Arvind has written seven graphic novels, including his adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s Trouble Is My Business and the Bram Stoker Award–nominated Darkness Visible, created with Mike Carey. His other graphic work includes the Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency series and Gray, a reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.His audio work includes The Crimes of Dorian Gray, the science-fiction anthology series Earworms, and Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth, a nonfiction exploration of Adams’s life, work, and environmentalism.For the stage, Arvind has adapted Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. His adaptation of Sir Lenny Henry’s The Boy With Wings was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Family Show. He also contributed additional material to The Infidel and was an originating and lead producer of the Tony and Grammy Award–winning Broadway musical Jagged Little Pill.Arvind’s television work includes Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency for Netflix and BBC America, Anansi Boys for Amazon, and the Asian Academy Award–winning The Garden of Evening Mists for HBO.Across these different forms, Arvind frequently revisits classic stories and characters from new perspectives, combining affection for the original works with questions about identity, power, empire, and who has traditionally been allowed to occupy the center of an adventure.Linden BotanicalsWe sell the world’s healthiest herbal teas and extracts.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showhttps://www.instagram.com/teatonicandtoxin/https://www.facebook.com/teatonicandtoxinhttps://www.teatonicandtoxin.comStay mysterious...
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  • The Monsters We Make by Rachel Corbett

    The Monsters We Make by Rachel Corbett
    Sep 14 2026
    Send us Fan Mail“The Monsters We Make is narrated so sagely and coolly, I almost didn’t realize how much it had to teach. It is a provoking, moving, and original book that has stuck with me long since I turned its last page.”— Maggie Nelson, New York Times best-selling author of The Argonauts“Serial killers have spawned hundreds of books, but none like this. With a daughter’s heart and a reporter’s keen gaze, Rachel Corbett turns the stories inside out. She profiles the profilers―their methods, their hubris, and the evils they unwittingly commit. An expertly titrated mix of history, true crime, and memoir, The Monsters We Make is the most intriguing crime book I’ve read in quite some time.”― Mary Roach, New York Times best-selling author of Fuzz, Gulp, and StiffHistory of Mystery book selections available in our Amazon Storefront or support your favorite local bookstore in our Bookshop Storefront as well! Guests have their own list here!Or if you happen to be in lovely Roanoke, Virginia, stop in person at the BiblioPub to get your copy.For bonus episodes and to get all episodes first, join our Patreon community.Watch clips from our conversations with guests!Rachel Corbett is a features writer at New York magazine and the author of You Must Change Your Life (Norton, 2016), which won the Marfield Prize, the National Award for Arts Writing, and The Monsters We Make (Norton, 2025). She has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and other publications. She grew up in Iowa and lives in New York City.Special guest Rachel Corbett joins Tea, Tonic & Toxin to discuss her book The Monsters We Make: Murder, Obsession, and the Rise of Criminal Profiling.Criminal profiling―the delicate art of collecting and deciphering the psychological “fingerprints” of the monsters among us―holds an almost mythological status in pop culture. But what exactly is it, does it work, and why is the American public so entranced by it? What do we gain, and endanger, from studying why people commit murder? In The Monsters We Make, author Rachel Corbett explores how criminal profiling became one of society’s most seductive and quixotic undertakings through five significant moments in its history.Rachel Corbett follows Arthur Conan Doyle through the London alleyways where Jack the Ripper butchered his victims, depicts the tailgate outside of Ted Bundy’s execution, and visits the remote Montana cabin where Ted Kaczynski assembled his antiestablishment bombs.Along the way emerge the people who studied and unraveled these cases. We meet self-taught psychologist Henry Murray, who profiled Adolf Hitler at the request of the U.S. government and later profiled his own students―including the future Unabomber―by subjecting them to cruel humiliation experiments. We also meet the prominent Yale psychiatrist Dorothy Lewis, who ended up testifying that Bundy was too sick to stand trial.Finally, Corbett takes the story into our own time, explaining the rise of modern “predictive policing” policies through a study of one Florida family that the analytics targeted―to devastating effects.With narrative intrigue and deft research, Corbett delves deep into the mythology and reality of criminal profilers, revealing how thin the line can be separating those who do harm and those who claim to stop it.Buy The Monsters We MakeRachel Corbett – Where the Story BeginsYour book begins on May 13, 1993, when you were six years old. Can you take us back to that day and tell us what happened?You knew Scott as a kind and protective person who seemed very different from your father. Years later, you learned that before taking his own life, he had killed his girlfriend and his dog. What was it like to discover that the story you’d grown up with wasn’t the whole story?You spent two years going through police records, interviewing witnesses, and trying to understand Scott. At one point you describe studying his photo for some visible trace of monstrosity. Did you feel that if you looked closely enough, there had to be an explanation?Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Mystery TraditionThe Tea, Tonic & Toxin podcast and book club has discussed The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Purloined Letter, along with A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles. The first criminal profilers were fictional. Rachel Corbett, how did Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle help create the idea of the criminal profiler?You write that profiling is often a “quixotic, haphazard blend of science and fiction.” Arthur Conan Doyle didn’t simply write Sherlock Holmes; he tried to apply Holmes’s methods to real crimes, including Jack the Ripper. What happens when a method that works great within the controlled universe of fiction gets applied to messy human reality?Sherlock Holmes begins with a clue and reasons backward toward a person. That’s immensely satisfying to readers. Has detective ...
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    58 Min.
  • Died in the Wool by Ngaio Marsh with ZJ Czupor, Part 2

    Died in the Wool by Ngaio Marsh with ZJ Czupor, Part 2
    Sep 1 2026
    Send us Fan MailZ.J. Czupor has joined us TWICE to discuss Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers and Died in the Wool by Ngaio Marsh.His new murder mystery, Dead Men Don’t Drink, is published at zoltanjames.substack.com. He’s also the author of THE BIG WEIRD: Haikus in Times of Pandemic and Chaos. He is immediate past president of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and an active member of Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers.History of Mystery book selections available in our Amazon Storefront or support your favorite local bookstore in our Bookshop Storefront as well! Guests have their own list here!Or if you happen to be in lovely Roanoke, Virginia, stop in person at the BiblioPub to get your copy.Watch clips from our conversations with guests!For bonus episodes and to get all episodes first, join our Patreon community.He is also the author of THE BIG WEIRD: Haikus in Times of Pandemic and Chaos, a collection of sublime poetry about his observations of the pandemic. More of his haiku poems are featured in Stop the World: Snapshots from a Pandemic, (Thalia Press), which includes authors, poets and essayists from around the world.His noir short story, The Man in the Corner, is featured in Crossing Colfax, by Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers.4. The Victim: Flossie as Power, Personality, and ProvocationFlossie is no shrinking-violet. How does Ngaio Marsh make her presence linger after she’s gone—through portraiture, reputation, household dynamics, and the aftershocks of her control?Flossie: Heroic public servant or unbearable authoritarian benefactor? What does the book seem to want us to feel about women who take up space publicly?Why would someone want Flossie dead? Rank the motive categories: personal resentment, romantic rivalry, political threat, ideological conflict, or something colder.5. Class, Gratitude, and the “Patron” ProblemThere’s a recurring tension around patronage—who is “helping” whom, and what that help costs. What does the book say about gratitude as a weapon?When a benefactor decides they’re entitled to your future, is that kindness or coercion? Where do you see the book landing?Several characters in Died in the Wool by Ngaio Marsh feel trapped by the role they’re assigned in the household hierarchy. Who seems most conscious of class—and who uses it as a shield?6. Character Web: Relationships, Pressure, and Emotional TruthLet’s talk characters. Who in this book is most capable of self-deception? Who is most brutally honest? Which characters behaved like adults under wartime pressure, and which behaved like sulky adolescents?Which relationships felt most combustible—and which felt most quietly sad?The idiom suggests fixedness—being set in your nature.Who is most “dyed in the wool” here: the victim, the killer, the ideologue, the loyalist, the snob, the romantic?7. Clues & Craft: Fair Play, Objects, and Alibis in Died in the Wool by Ngaio MarshThe musical alibi: fair, clever, or too cute? Did you enjoy the technicality of it—or did it feel like a trick you’re meant to swallow?What is Ngaio Marsh’s misdirection style here? Is it “hide the clue,” “hide the significance,” or “let you see everything but look the other way”? Which clues felt most “classic puzzle,” and which felt most psychologically revealing?Beyond shock value, what does the wool-bale concealment accomplish? Is it about industry, identity, compression of truth, the station’s economy, the idea of being packaged and exported? Does the method feel symbolically New Zealand or gimmicky?)The final trap: thrilling theatre or ethically dicey? Where do you land on detectives who lure the killer into action to prove a case?Fair play court: Did the solution feel genuinely inevitable in hindsight or mostly “authorial magician’s flourish”?Crippen and LandruThe very best in short mystery fictionDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showhttps://www.instagram.com/teatonicandtoxin/https://www.facebook.com/teatonicandtoxinhttps://www.teatonicandtoxin.comStay mysterious...
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    55 Min.
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