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Gardening Can Be Murder: How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers
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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, razorsharp shears, shady corners, and readymade 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 nearencyclopedic knowledge of the genre, illuminates the many ways in which our greatest mystery writers, from Edgar Allen Poe to authors on todays bestseller lists, have found inspiration in the sinister side of gardens.From the cozy to the hardboiled, the literary to the pulp, and the classic to the contemporary, Gardening Can Be Murder is the first book to explore the mystery genres many surprising horticultural connections. Meet plantobsessed detectives and spooky groundskeeper suspects, witness toxic teas served in foul play, and tour the gardensboth real and imaginedthat have been the settings for fictions ghastliest misdeeds. A New York Times bestselling author herself, McDowell also introduces us to some of todays top writers who consider gardening integral to their craft, assuring that horticultural themes will remain a staple of the genre for countless twisting plots to come.This book is dangerous. A veritable cornucopia of crime fiction and gardening lore, it faces the reader with multiple temptationsbooks to seek out, plants to obtain, garden tours to book. Vicki Lane, author of the Elizabeth Goodweather Appalachian Mysteries
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