By Stephen Margrett
With an appreciative nod to Wilkie Collins and others who blazed the trail, it really started with Sherlock Holmes. In his first novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introduced the world to the great consulting detective and thereby created the detective fiction genre, which has been enjoying enormous popularity ever since. Of the many writers who have followed in Doyle’s giant footsteps, none can compare with Agatha Christie: the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare! The Queen of Crime’s inimitable sleuths Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple have earned an exalted position in popular culture alongside Holmes and his faithful partner, Dr Watson. So, as lifelong fans of both Doyle and Christie, my wife and I decided it was time we took a trip to England in search of literary sites associated with these iconic writers.
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