{"podcast":{"title":"Lighting the Pipes","slug":"lighting-the-pipes-765775","podcast_index_feed_id":765775,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/lighting-the-pipes/","website_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/lighting-the-pipes/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/e921d8da-578e-40e2-a81d-8d30fa1b3db1/WUIIXl8WbWOAE3Fh3j_GdrQ3.jpg","author":"Lighting the Pipes","episode_count":151,"summary":"Blending research and literary analysis with conversation and review, we lock down crime stories and read them their rights. The game is afoot!","last_synced_at":"2026-09-07T12:21:03.805066+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lighting-the-pipes-765775"},"episode":{"title":"The Biter Bit (1858)","slug":"the-biter-bit-1858","published_at":"2026-08-14T06:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lighting-the-pipes-765775/the-biter-bit-1858","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lighting-the-pipes-765775","url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/lighting-the-pipes/","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9b88a326-d058-4292-9d3e-fdb44dfd4d85.mp3","summary":"We return to Wilkie Collins and early detective writing with a study of this comic story, originally published in the Atlantic Monthly back in April of 1858. Mr Yatman, a hard-working SoHo stationer, has been robbed at home and now faces financial ruin. Conditions and suspects in the crime point to a \"closed circle\" mystery. When the veteran Sergeant Bulmer is taken off the case, a young upstart named Matthew Sharpin takes over the investigation... in a manner of speaking. Sharpin is well-connected but absurdly self-confident and Collins leans into the popular form of epistolary writing to chart this young man's (not-so-tragic) fall. Summary@7:50; PIPES@28:40. For more on Wilkie Collins, check out our episode on \"The Moonstone\" from March 2022.","meta_description":"We return to Wilkie Collins and early detective writing with a study of this comic story, originally published in the Atlantic Monthly back in April of 18…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4167,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lighting-the-pipes-765775/episodes/the-biter-bit-1858/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lighting-the-pipes-765775/the-biter-bit-1858.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}