Show Notes
Why did Agatha Christie set her murders in villages?
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Books & sources mentioned in this episode:— "God Made the Country" by William Cowper— The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie— The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie— The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie— A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie— A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie— Murder is Easy by Agatha Christie— The South Country by Edward Thomas— The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers— An Autobiography by Agatha Christie— The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie— The Condition of England by Charles F. G. Masterman— The Strange Death of Liberal England by George Dangerfield— Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie
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