Wilkie Collins invented this genre of detective story based on the 1860 Road Hill House child murder, which took place near Frome in Somerset. First on the scene and leading the initial inquiry was the vicar, who moved to my village shortly after. Did Collins leave this in Nunney Castle? Mystery.
I am at a hotel so isolated that no one can leave the property easily and if every episode of Poirot has taught me anything it’s that one guest is not getting out of here alive.
