The closer she gets to the truth about the town, the more danger there is for her. But it’s not long before she becomes convinced that there is. At first, Joanna doesn’t think there’s a problem. Soon, though Joanna’s new friend Bobbie Markowe (who’s only been in Stepford a few months longer than Joanna has) begins to suspect that something is wrong in the town. They settle in, start to make friends, and all seems well at first. In the novel, Joanna Eberhart and her husband Walter move with their children to the small Connecticut town of Stepford.
Ira Levin’s The Stepford Wives includes a few scenes in grocery stores. It turns out that this murder isn’t nearly as simple as it seems on the surface. He asks Hercule Poirot to help clear her name, and Poirot agrees to look into the matter. Local GP Peter Lord has fallen in love with Elinor and wants her acquitted. Since Mary ate one of the sandwiches, it seems more than possible that Elinor poisoned the fish paste. One of the pieces of evidence against her is a visit she’d paid – a very ordinary visit – to a grocer to buy fish paste for picnic sandwiches. When Mary is later poisoned, Elinor becomes an obvious suspect, and is soon arrested. During the visit, Roddy becomes infatuated with the lodgekeeper’s daughter, Mary Gerrard. For instance, in Sad Cypress, Elinor Carlisle and her fiancé, Roderick ‘Roddy’ Welman go for a visit to Elinor’s Aunt Laura. That can add realism to a story.Īgatha Christie included several ordinary sorts of places in her stories. And, of course, they can simply be places characters go, just like you and I do. They can also be settings for murder when the story is done right. They can be places where people exchange gossip (and clues). Those regular, everyday places can serve important functions in a crime novel. We go to grocery stores, dry cleaner shops, and mechanics a lot more often than we go to traditional crime fiction places. But the fact is, most of us spend a lot more time in very ordinary places.
#AN ORDINARY WORLD FULL#
The genre is full of creepy houses, isolated small towns, old hotels, you get the idea. Some crime-fictional settings are full of atmosphere.
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