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Village Murder

July 8, 2026 · 20 min

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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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