Guy fawkes night crime fiction
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The fifth of November
Another holiday, another list! We may not celebrate Guy Fawkes Nighthere in the U.S., but this popular U.K. holiday is celebrated in several countries around the world and appears in many crime fiction novels.
Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Bonfire Night, is an annual celebration, primarily in Great Britain, traditionally and usually held on the evening of November 5. Festivities are centered on the use of fireworks and the lighting of bonfires.
Historically, the celebrations mark the anniversary of the failed Gunpowder Plot of November 5, 1605. Guy Fawkes Night originates from the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, the failed conspiracy by a group of provincial English Catholics to assassinate the Protestant King James I of England and replace him with a Catholic head of state. The survival of the king was first celebrated on 5 November 1605, after Guy Fawkes,left in charge of the gunpowder placed underneath the House of Lords, was discovered and arrested.
Traditionally, an effigy (or "guy") representing Fawkes is ritually burnt on the bonfire.In the weeks before bonfire night, children traditionally displayed the "guy" and requested a "penny for the guy" in order to raise funds with which to
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Literary Potpourri
Guy Fawkes
Image Source: George Cruikshank [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Its the 5th of November, and while I am in the middle of a couple of other books, I decided to stop and pick up a read that has a Guy Fawkes theme, since I have been planning to for years, but never seem to get down to it on time. I don’t really know very much fiction (yet) that is set around the gunpowder plot or Guy Fawkes in some way. There is of course the recently released Fawkes by Nadine Brandes (on goodreads here), which is definitely set around the gunpowder plot (I don’t have a copy of that one), and The House of Arden by Edith Nesbit (on goodreads here) where the children in the story find themselves travelling in time to and mixed up in Guy Fawkes’ plot, as a result of their knowledge of history. But I also did want a short read since I am already reading other books. So I picked a quick read, a short (ish) story by Agatha Christie, titled “Murder in the Mews”, part of her book also called Murder in the Mews, which features four Poirot stories.
‘Murder in the Mews’ the first story, opens on Guy Fawkes night, where Chief Inspector Japp and Hercule Poirot have just dined to
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