‘One of these days (please God), I shall retire from catching thieves, and try my hand at growing roses.” So says Sgt. Cuff in Wilkie Collins’s 1868 detective…
It’s the month of all things spooky and scary, from horror movies to haunted mansions. But what about gardens? Turns out there's an unexpected sinister side to gardening, and writer and gardener Marta McDowell traces the connection between gardening and crime fiction in her book, "Gardening Can Be Murder: How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers."