From away to garden.com and Robinhood Radio.com, this is Away to Garden with Margaret

Roach.

You're a weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

I don't think I've read a mystery novel since the Nancy Drew books of my long ago childhood,

though I will confess to having watched more than a few who've done it TV series over the years, most of them from the BBC. But I never

noticed how many mystery writers from Edgar Allen Poe to Agatha Christie

incorporated elements of the garden into their tales of intrigue. Today's

guest picked up on all the clues in their stories and many others and put

them together in her own latest book,

titled, Gardening Can Be Murder. More in a moment but first these messages.

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some of our most cherished writers, including Beatrix Potter,

Emily Dickinson, and Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Now she's focused her latest one called,

Gardening Can Be Murder.

I'm mystery writers and how they, too,

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