Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "A Murder Is Announced" in English language version.
More than a simple murder mystery, this is a story of redemption set in the throes of post-war muddle and discomfort.
But you also have a novel about 1950s Britain. You see what life was like for many people after WW2. People who had been used to money and servants and are now having to learn to do without.
the vicarage cat in A Murder Is Announced received the rather grand name Tiglath Pileser, after an Assyrian king whose warrior artefacts were discovered on one of her husband's archaeological excavations.
