   Cruising, Agatha Christie style Cruising, Agatha Christie
style  Lots of people die ironically nasty deaths in the bucolic
English countryside, at least in the popular British TV series
"Midsomer Murders" and in many of the much-loved 80-plus mystery
novels of Dame Agatha Christie. We know because we're addicted
to murder and mayhem in the British Isles and have watched every
episode of the 14-year run of the "Midsomer" series, and we have
faithfully followed frumpy Miss Jane Marple and pompous Hercule
Poirot, creatures of the Queen of Crime's fertile mind. But our
knowledge has been from afar, from 3,000 miles across the pond,
so we decided the best way for a pair of rough-edged New Yorkers
to ease their way into the...