Tim Brinkhof in
JSTOR Daily discusses the role of gardening in mysteries with citations from Marta McDowell's new
Gardening Can Be Murder, including mentions of such works as
Agatha Christie's
Sad Cypress and
Stephanie Barron's
The White Garden (involving Vita Sackville-West's famous gardens at Sissinghurst Castle) and the possibility that
Wilkie Collins' Sergeant Cuff in
The Moonstone is the first gardening detective.
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