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Gardening Can Be Murder How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers - Marta McDowell 2023 EPUB Timber Press BOOKS MISCELLANEOUS
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Gardening Can Be Murder How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers
Author: Marta McDowell
Year: 2023
Format: EPUB
File size: 16 MB
Language: ENG

This fun, engrossing book takes a look at the surprising influence that gardens and gardening have had on mystery novels and their authors. With their deadly plants, razor-sharp shears, shady corners, and ready-made burial sites, gardens make an ideal scene for the perfect murder. But the outsize influence that gardens and gardening have had on the mystery genre has been underappreciated. Now, Marta McDowell, a writer and gardener with a near-encyclopedic knowledge of the genre, illuminates the many ways in which our greatest mystery writers, from Edgar Allen Poe to authors on today’s bestseller lists, have found inspiration in the sinister side of gardens.

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