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The Big Sleep

Tea, Tonic & Toxin is a history of mystery book club and podcast. We’re reading the best mysteries ever written and interviewing some of the world’s best contemporary mystery and thriller writers.

THE BIG SLEEP (1939) by Raymond Chandler is a seminal work in the hardboiled detective genre. Set in gritty 1930s Los Angeles, this classic hardboiled detective novel introduces private eye Philip Marlowe. The book revolutionized crime fiction, establishing a template for noir storytelling that continues to influence literature and film today.

Special guest Anthony Dean Rizzuto joins us to discuss the book!

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Episode 83: 2024 Retrospective (Mysteries, Thrillers & Detective Fiction)

Episode 83: 2024 Retrospective (Mysteries, Thrillers & Detective Fiction)

January 1, 2025

Carolyn Daughters and Sarah Harrison discuss the history of mystery (1934-1939)!

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Episode 82: Dead and Gondola (Christie Bookshop Mystery Series) - Ann Claire

Episode 82: Dead and Gondola (Christie Bookshop Mystery Series) - Ann Claire

December 22, 2024

Colorado author Ann Claire joins us to discuss her cozy mystery Dead and Gondola.

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Episode 81: A Coffin for Dimitrios (Eric Ambler)

Episode 81: A Coffin for Dimitrios (Eric Ambler)

December 22, 2024

Special guest Neil Nyren returns to discuss A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler.

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ABOUT TEA, TONIC & TOXIN

Tea, Tonic, and Toxin is a book club and podcast for people who love mysteries, thrillers, introspection, and good conversation. Your hosts, Carolyn Daughters and Sarah Harrison, are discussing game-changing mysteries, starting with Edgar Allan Poe onward. Together, we’ll watch the genre evolved.

Along the way, we’ll entertain ideas, prospects, theories, doubts, grudges, fabulous guests, and interviews with talented, contemporary mystery authors. Together, we’ll experience the joys of reading the best mysteries and thrillers ever written.

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Sarah Harrison - Host of Tea Tonic and Toxin (Mystery and Thriller Podcast and Book Club)

SARAH HARRISON

Sarah loves getting to the bottom of any mystery having to do with life, love, work, play, personality, or process dysfunction. A scientist obsessed with reading fiction, she launched PORN (People Obsessed with Reading Novels -- get your mind out of the gutter!) while in grad school. After nine years, it was time for her book club to transmogrify into the podcast before you, sending its tendrils out to find you, friend. When she isn't hanging with her husband and two kids or running her business, Grace Sigma, she's taking a deep dive into the history, art, and architecture of this dark genre.

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Carolyn has loved mysteries ever since she and her sister Michele started the CarMich Detective Agency when they were kids. Though she has never solved a crime, she is an excellent detective. When she isn't trying to convince people she's an excellent detective, she's busy running her company, CarolynDaughters.com, serving as a fractional chief marketing officer for small businesses, teaching persuasive writing courses, exploring new neighborhoods on foot, photographing street art, and boarding planes early and often (47 states, 42 countries, and counting). She's coming for you, North Dakota and Bhutan.

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