


Cruising, Agatha Christie style
Cruising, Agatha Christie style

Lots of people die ironically nasty deaths in the bucolic English countryside, at least in the popular British TV series "Midsomer Murders" and in many of the much-loved 80-plus mystery novels of Dame Agatha Christie. We know because we're addicted to murder and mayhem in the British Isles and have watched every episode of the 14-year run of the "Midsomer" series, and we have faithfully followed frumpy Miss Jane Marple and pompous Hercule Poirot, creatures of the Queen of Crime's fertile mind. But our knowledge has been from afar, from 3,000 miles across the pond, so we decided the best way for a pair of rough-edged New Yorkers to ease their way into the...