Susan Cook is an Associate Professor of English at Southern New Hampshire University and the President of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association. Her book, Victorian Negatives: Literary Culture and the Dark Side of Photography in the Nineteenth Century, approaches Victorian literature from a multi-media perspective. She is a true crime podcast enthusiast and teaches courses on British crime literature.
Barnaby Rudge was a new kind of 'crime' story, with an unresolved murder tale which unfolded orally and serially. Today's podcasters are chasing the same magic.