WPC Lindsey Hunter (Katrina Levon, 1996), is temporarily seconded into CID to support Frost's investigation of an assault on a student at Denton University.

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This is broadly consistent with most of the putative locations listed, though not with the actual Yorkshire locations. Mullett has a love-hate relationship with Frost, whose detective skills he admires but whose people and political skills he abhors. What he finds in nature is sensuous pleasure; he is also sensitive to the earth’s fertility and to man’s relationship to the soil.

The novel was inspired by a ‘winter’s day from Emma’s childhood’, and the vividness of the setting is built up from the very first page.

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Although he inappropriately tries to smoke in the houses of people he is interviewing and gets a reprimand, Frost begins to like his instinctive, proactive sense of policing.

The ominous tone of these two poems prompted Rosenthal’s further comment: “At his most powerful Frost is as staggered by ‘the horror’ as Eliot and approaches the hysterical edge of sensibility in a comparable way. On the other hand, as Leonard Unger and William Van O’Connor point out in Poems for Study,“Frost’s poetry, unlike that of such contemporaries as Eliot, Stevens, and the later Yeats, shows no marked departure from the poetic practices of the nineteenth century.