Question
Answer the following about authors who wrote mystery novels involving trees, for 10 points each.
[10e] This prolific author began including courtroom elements in her mystery novel Sad Cypress, one of the dozens of books she wrote featuring Hercule Poirot (“air-KYOOL pwa-ROH”).
ANSWER: Agatha Christie [or Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan; or Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller]
[10m] Squire Vane disappears among a grove of possibly eldritch “peacock trees” in this author’s mystery novella The Trees of Pride. This Catholic author also wrote The Napoleon of Notting Hill and created the priest-detective Father Brown.
ANSWER: G. K. Chesterton [or Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
[10h] Toby suffers from PTSD in this author’s 2018 mystery thriller The Witch Elm. Adam is found crawling out of the woods with slashes on his back in this American-Irish author’s novel In the Woods, which is part of her Dublin Murder Squad series.
ANSWER: Tana French
<TH, British Literature>
Summary
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Chicago B | Illinois C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Illinois A | Chicago D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WashU A | Indiana A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago A | Indiana B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WashU B | Missoui S&T | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |