Catherine’s Bar, where so many episodes conclude – and where Detective Inspector Humphrey Goodman ate a whole chilli – is a wooden deck right on the town’s beach. Having watched the series, I ‘knew’ what the characters and locations looked like, which added to my enjoyment. In this must-read for all fans of the cozy sub-genre, Christie sends her famed amateur sleuth, elderly spinster Miss Jane Marple, on vacation to a hotel on the fictional island of St.

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The actors and crew relocate to Guadeloupe for five or six months of the year (guest actors for individual episodes visit for two weeks). In reality, the series – which offers a burst of the exotic in the dark depths of a British January – is filmed in Guadeloupe, which lies about halfway down the eastern Caribbean chain, between Dominica and Antigua. Each episode begins with a pre-credits sequence showing the events leading up to a murder and often the discovery of the body afterwards; this sequence also serves to introduce that particular episode's guest characters. I’m looking forward to visiting Dominica,” he said, “but really this part of Guadeloupe is my favourite – because of the volcano and the rainforest.In the final scene of the first episode of the third series, the cover version recorded by The Skatalites in 1994 is played at the bar. Danny John Jules, who plays Officer Dwayne Myers, talked of how he and his junior officer J P Hooper (Tobi Bakare) muddle along to help the eccentric DI. The theme music was given another, bigger overhaul in 2021, with completely new music but still based on the original theme.

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This is the first of these books I have heard/read but the characters (from the tv series) were familiar and beautifully voiced by a great narrator.It found that even though the total number of murders in Jamaica dropped after the report’s completion to 1,124 in 2011 – a seven-year low – the country has the highest homicide rate in the Caribbean and the third-highest murder rate worldwide in recent years, with about 60 murders per 100,000 inhabitants. All these books contain the key elements which make up the classic mystery—a wily hero, a crime that is usually a murder, adversity, danger, and a satisfying resolution.

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The lack of basic infrastructure inherited from colonial times, as well as the resulting power imbalance between the global North and South have also contributed to the consistent, violent realities of Latin America. He only comes to the island because they need a British detective to sign off on a case, and is forced to stay longer after a period of illness renders him temporarily unfit to travel.

Based on consolidated figures, each episode was the most-watched programme of the day and in the top ten of the week. In Trinidad and Tobago, the report notes, murder rates increased five-fold over a decade, to more than 40 per 100,000 in 2008, and then declined to 36 in 2010.