GARDENING CAN BE MURDER: How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers

First work to explore the mystery genre's many surprising horticultural connections. Meet plant-obsessed detectives and spooky groundskeeper suspects, witness toxic teas served in foul play, and tour the real and imagined gardens that have been the settings for fiction's ghastliest misdeeds. Well illus.