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Originally Posted by issybird
This is a television vent and rant, not a reading vent and rant. Jessica Fletcher was a creature of television. As for the fictional characters, not only did Father Brown got around a lot, he solved an average of about two crimes per year, not all of them murders, over the course of Chesterton’s oeuvre. Miss Marple’s murder rate was even lower, at about 1½ per year, but then she stuck closer to St. Mary Meade.
The television Father Brown has nothing in common with the original, other than name, vocation, saturno and umbrella. I’ve not seen Miss Marple on tv.
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There are books for both Jessica Fletcher and Father Brown. Most cozy mystery series take place in a small town where the murders happen frequently.