Dear Miss Marple,
We प्यार how आप use the wisdom of your garden, a wonderful metaphor for growth and discovery, to help solve tangled, often multigenerational village mysteries.
You once described a puzzle of deception in At Bertram’s Hotel: “It is like when आप get ground elder really badly in a border. There’s nothing else आप can do about it—except dig the whole thing up.”
And dig the whole thing up is what आप often do, in your polite but probing procedures (which usually seem personal rather than formal—or is this part of your tidy effectiveness, to hide behind your knitting or...
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