The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday

In Smith's winning fifth novel to feature Edinburgh philosophical sleuth Isabel Dalhousie (after The Careful Use of Compliments), Dalhousie, who's recently assumed ownership of the obscure journal she's edited for many years, the Review of Applied Ethics, applies her deductive gifts to the case of a disgraced doctor. When a patient dies after taking a new antibiotic that Marcus Moncrieff deemed safe in clinical trials, the doctor's original report turns out to contain falsified data.

Every Monday Sean Moncrieff (NewsTalkRadioDublin) along with special guests, professor of linguistics Terry Dolan, trace the origins and meanings of every day words in the English language. The words are discussed according to the chosen topics.