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Evocative of The Golden Age of the English Detective Novel
Posted: July 3, 2014 in Agatha Christie, Book Awards, Conan Doyle, England, Golden Age of detective fiction, Historical, Miss Marple, photo essayComments
Oh, those are lovely ‘photos, Norman! I half-expect to see Lord Peter Wimsey or Miss Marple in one of them…
Margot, some of my other photos taken on this trip of English villages do have Miss Marple in them. 😉
Marvellous photos, one made me think of The Mysterious Affair at the Styles (?is that the right title?) and the one with the moat made me think of old Sherlock Holmes – The Valley of Fear.
More information on these photos in the next few days. 😉 England is still a beautiful country if you go out of the big cities and off the main roads. Blighty, no “the” in front of Styles.
All your own handiwork?
Col, of course. 🙂 It just shows if you take enough shots you can get a few that are not too bad.
That’s good – I went on another ramble around my hometown and took some more photos on my phone and I think maybe 1 in 5 had my thumb showing! Photography isn’t my gig!
Lovely photos, and I am eagerly awaiting more info. thanks for sharing these.
Lovely photos, but I can’t fathom how so many murders were committed in this beautiful, idyllic setting.
Kathy, having once lived in one of these idyllic villages I can confirm there are frequent problems with boundary disputes, quarrels about trees, access, cars, septic tanks, bore holes, and animals.
The people aren’t always as nice as the setting, both in crime fiction and in real life.
But are trees, etc., enough of a motive for murder?
In Devon sometimes yes!