Whodunnit? (audio story)

Whodunnit?
Main character(s):	River Song
Featuring:	Franz Kafka
Main enemy:	Discordia
Main setting:	Vienna and 107 Baker Street, 1920s
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Matt Fitton
Director:	Ken Bentley
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Howard Carter
Cover by:	Tom Webster
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	4.3
Part of:	The Diary of River Song: Series Four
Release date:	4 September 2018
Format:	1 CD Download 3rd of 4 stories
Production code:	BFPDWRIVER04
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78703-503-4 (physical); ISBN 978-1-78703-504-1 (digital)
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Whodunnit? was the third story of the audio anthology, The Diary of River Song: Series Four. It was written by Matt Fitton and featured Alex Kingston as River Song.

Publisher's summary

Melody Malone finds herself in a castle, with an assortment of strange companions.

But guests are being murdered, one by one. Time is running out for a mystery to be solved.

And Franz Kafka is hiding something in the attic.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• River Song - Alex Kingston
• Dante - Nicholas Asbury
• Franz Kafka / Samsa - Tim Bentinck
• Vermillion - Alex Tregear
• Lord Simon Whist / Captain Bartholomew / Discordia Underling - Christopher Naylor
• Cissy / Thelma Sketch - Shvorne Marks

Worldbuilding

• Mr Brod visits Franz Kafka as he was dying. He is hesitating whether to fulfil Kafka's will and burn all his writing. Dora is on her way to Kafka's deathbed.
• Kafka used St Vitus Cathedral in Prague as a model for the virtual construct.
• Kafka places an Ungeziefer in the attic of the mansion in the construct.
• Kafka compares the true appearance of Dante to paintings of Hieronymus Bosch.
• River steals the TARDIS from the Doctor's Baker Street apartment.
• Dante based his performance as a detective on a character by Agatha Christie.
• River mentions her trial following her alleged murder of the Eleventh Doctor.

Notes

• Several of the characters were inspired by famous fictional detectives: Thelma Sketch with her dog by Velma Dinkley and Scooby-Doo; Lord Simon Whist by Lord Peter Wimsey; the persona assumed by Dante is largely based on Hercule Poirot (he even admits basing it on a character of Agatha Christie in the story itself).

Continuity

• River goes by the name Melody Malone for much of this adventure. (TV: The Angels Take Manhattan, PROSE: The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery, AUDIO: The Sonomancer)

External links

• Official The Diary of River Song: Series Four page at bigfinish.com