On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.

It was an extraordinary news story.

The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,

mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.

One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for

Leukin. It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. I'm Alex von

Tunselman. This is The Lucan Obsession. Listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert.

Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts,

where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them.

We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here.

Hello, to recommend books they love,

I'm joined first by the actor Patterson Joseph,

currently to be seen on the big screen in Wonka with Timothy Shalame, and recently on BBC TV in

Boat Story. Patterson's also an author, his latest book being the novel, The Secret Diaries of

Charles Ignatius Sancho. With him another novelist, Richard Coles, the second of whose best-selling murder mysteries

a death in the parish, came out last year.

Richard's heterogeneous past career includes 17 years as an Anglican priest and three years

as one half of chart-topping duo, the Cumulage.

Sounds absurd.

Anything in our past tends to sound absurd.

It does, isn't it?

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