Dear Miss Marple,
We upendo how wewe 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 wewe get ground elder really badly in a border. There’s nothing else wewe can do about it—except dig the whole thing up.”
And dig the whole thing up is what wewe 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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