The body in the churchyard

On our afternoon drive through the sunny, leafy back lanes of South Oxfordshire we stopped at the old churchyard of St Mary's in Cholsey and the three of us stretched our cumulative 8 legs in amongst the old, lichen clad graves of centuries of villagers. In a long line of 18th century gravestones we identified the same pair of village masons hands in the ornate but naive cherubs, scrolls and foliage. So many graves, so few surnames but in amongst the Boshers and the Bucknells stands this crooked but well visited stone - the last resting place of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple or at least of the skull within which they had their birth. The tiny grave of Agatha Christie.