The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse Allows Jane Marple Drinks

Summary: The Mystery of the Acid Soil, short story by Kate Mosse for Marple: Twelve New Mysteries copyrighted by Agatha Christie Limited, allows Jane Marple drinks.

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Jane Marple acclaims plum trees that accommodate her achieving her annual after-dinner damson-gin alcohol in The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse. Perhaps she allows Carl Linnaeus (May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778) and Camillo Karl Schneider (April 7, 1876-Jan. 5, 1951) among her scientific-method heroes for their analyzing damson-plum tree parts and trees into scientific classification as Prunus domestica subsp. insititia (from Greek προύνη via Latin prunus, “plum tree”; Latin domus -icus, “native-country pertaining” via domesticus, “domestic, familiar, native, of the house”; Latin insititia, “established”); illustrations of plum cultivars Imperial Gage, Shropshire Damson, Lombard, Maynard and Yellow Egg by Austrian-born, Philadelphia immigrant watercolor artist Alois Lunzer (born 1840) in Brown Brothers Company Continental Nurseries, Trees and Plants for the World Out of Doors (1909), page 14: Library of Congress, Public Domain, Free to Use and Reuse, via Library of Congress Book/Printed Material

The Mystery of the Acid Soil, short story by Kate Mosse for Marple: Twelve New Mysteries copyrighted by Agatha Christie Limited, allows Jane Marple anonymous tea, cherry brandy and damson gin drinks.

Agatha Christie Limited brings us Sep. 13, 2022, for its 14-book Marple Collection, the book Marple: Twelve New Mysteries, beneath the HarperCollins Publishers’ William Morrow imprint. The Kate Mosse contribution, as the 11th, next-last chapter, constructs into 10 configurations the pages 299-300, 301-306, 306-313, 313-317, 317-320, 320-321, 321-323, 323-325, 326-327 and 327-333. The first subchapter delivers us Jane Marple with gray wool drawn perhaps from St. Mary Mead, to be done into a pullover to delight a great-nephew.

That wool perhaps ensues from St. Mary Mead, where Jane Marple establishes her home and which enables her enjoying fresh goat or sheep cheese and milk.

Jane Marple frets over her jasmine hedge, which perhaps fills her cups with jasmine tea, in that first subchapter and again in the final, 10th subchapter.

The second subchapter gives us Jane Marple with “her hands growing heavy” (Mosse: page 301), perhaps from not getting over good drinks and food Monday and Tuesday. The first subchapter hints of heavenly drinks and food from Jane Marple having dinner with nephew Raymond, niece-in-law Joan and their sons at Simpson’s restaurant. The second subchapter intimates that Jane Marple imbibes alcoholic drinks even as she includes in her suitcase her homemade cherry brandy and her own damson gin.

The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse jubilates the judicious journey of Jane Marple by her joining her friend, Emmeline Strickert, in alcoholic drinks.

Subchapter 3 kindles Emmeline Strickert, known as Emmy, keeping the cherry brandy on a pantry shelf even as she knows as Wednesday drinks Marple-made damson gin.

The two friends like the damson gin, loyal to a recipe left by the perhaps maternal, the perhaps paternal grandmother of Jane Marple, at 6:00 p.m. Subchapter 3 mentions the Drovers cottage maid making the evening meal without its makeup even as subchapter 4 mentions for breakfast buttered toast, marmalade and tea. Perhaps Jane Marple, if not her hostess, Emmy, niche such comestible plants as lavender, roses and wild marjoram as nutritious necessities for Drovers cottage meal times.

The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse offers, as alcoholic drinks, whiskey straight up in subchapter 3 and whisky and soda in subchapter 10.

The seventh subchapter presents, among the short-story alcoholic drinks, “bitter beer” for “informal village taxi service” (Mosse:321) driver Williams, not for Jane Marple or Emmeline Strickert.

That same subchapter in the short story quarters, among its back-yard, flowering-garden plants qualifiable for tea-questing drinkers, neutral-soil pH 7-quantifiable lilacs and acid-soil sub-7 pH-quantifiable rhododendrons. The eighth subchapter renders Jane Marple and Emmeline Strickert to the Grove Park rectory for Thursday afternoon tea, with no or unrevealed refreshments, with the rector. The last, 10th subchapter serves cherry brandy to Elizabeth Cooper, Jane Marple and Emmeline Strickert and whisky and soda to curate Ernest Kemp and his rector.

The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse tells us what Jane Marple takes with her tea, not what she takes with her alcoholic drinks.

Elizabeth Cooper, Jane Marple and Emmeline Strickert arrange themselves around cherry brandy even as Ernest Kemp and his rector assemble around whisky and soda. Perhaps that whisky in The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse attracts two gentlemen who avow Bell’s Scotch whisky as among award-worthy blended whiskies since the mid-19th century in the United Kingdom; Friday, Dec. 21, 2007, 13:02, image of glass of Bell's finest old Scotch whisky, originally produced by Arthur Bell & Sons Ltd, founded by Perth-born Scottish distiller Arthur Kinmond Bell (AK Bell; Oct. 4, 1868-April 16, 1942): Chris huh, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

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Jane Marple acclaims plum trees that accommodate her achieving her annual after-dinner damson-gin alcohol in The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse. Perhaps she allows Carl Linnaeus (May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778) and Camillo Karl Schneider (April 7, 1876-Jan. 5, 1951) among her scientific-method heroes for their analyzing damson-plum tree parts and trees into scientific classification as Prunus domestica subsp. insititia (from Greek προύνη via Latin prunus, “plum tree”; Latin domus -icus, “native-country pertaining” via domesticus, “domestic, familiar, native, of the house”; Latin insititia, “established”); illustrations of plum cultivars Imperial Gage, Shropshire Damson, Lombard, Maynard and Yellow Egg by Austrian-born, Philadelphia immigrant watercolor artist Alois Lunzer (born 1840) in Brown Brothers Company Continental Nurseries, Trees and Plants for the World Out of Doors (1909), page 14: Library of Congress, Public Domain, Free to Use and Reuse, via Library of Congress Book/Printed Material @ https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmassbookdig.treesplantsforwo00brow/ (catalog record), @ https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmassbookdig.treesplantsforwo00brow/?sp=22 (image specific URL); Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Page_14_plum_-_Imperial_Gage,_Shropshire_Damson,_Lombard,_Maynard,_Yellow_Egg.jpg; The Library of Congress is unaware of any copyright restrictions for this item, via Internet Archive @ https://archive.org/details/treesplantsforwo00brow/page/14/mode/1up; Copyright Status: Not provided -- Contact Holding Institution to verify copyright status, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25125757

Elizabeth Cooper, Jane Marple and Emmeline Strickert arrange themselves around cherry brandy even as Ernest Kemp and his rector assemble around whisky and soda. Perhaps that whisky in The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse attracts two gentlemen who avow Bell’s Scotch whisky as among award-worthy blended whiskies since the mid-19th century in the United Kingdom; Friday, Dec. 21, 2007, 13:02, image of glass of Bell's finest old Scotch whisky, originally produced by Arthur Bell & Sons Ltd, founded by Perth-born Scottish distiller Arthur Kinmond Bell (AK Bell; Oct. 4, 1868-April 16, 1942): Chris huh, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glass_of_Bell%27s.jpg

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