It was sometime in the summer of 2005 when my mother mentioned, almost in passing: ‘There’s a new crime series on TV. It’s really good.‘ That was all I needed to hear. I had been allowed to watch Murder, She Wrote and Columbo with her from the age of eight, and by my teenage years I had worked my way through nearly all of Agatha …
All posts filed under Uncategorized
The Origins of Englishness
Midsomer Murders is English nostalgia at its best. Cosy, rural, pastoral countryside…. if it weren’t for the murders. This is not a ‚Midsomer-only’ this but is the classic setting for English cosy crimes, including Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot en excellence. But Midsomer Murders goes one step further – and that’s why Betty Whittingale described Caroline Graham’s Barnaby novels as ‚Agatha Christie on …