Dear Little Corpses - Facts

 This is a series which features the detective writer, Josephine Tey, as the main character. Elizabeth MacKintosh (25 July 1896 – 13 February 1952), known by the pen name Josephine Tey, was a Scottish author. Her novel The Daughter of Time, a detective work investigating the death of the Princes in the Tower, was chosen by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990 as the greatest crime novel of all time.

Josephine has a cottage in Polstead, Suffolk. Polstead is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk. The village lies 14 km north of Colchester. 

The fete takes place at Polstead Hall. 

During the fete, Josephine meets a fellow writer, Margery Allingham. Margery Louise Allingham (20 May 1904 – 30 June 1966) was an English novelist from the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", and considered one of its four "Queens of Crime", alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Ngaio Marsh.

Margery lives in Tolleshunt D'Arcy. Tolleshunt D'Arcy  is a village situated on the Blackwater estuary in the Maldon District of Essex. The village is 19 km southwest of Colchester. From 1935 until 1966 the house became the home of the author Margery Allingham.

Marta works for Alfred Hitchcock in America, and we learn athat Selznick refused Hitchcock's version of 'Rebecca'. Hitchcock and David O. Selznick clashed over the adaptation of Rebecca, with Selznick favouring fidelity to the novel while Hitchcock wished to make changes, particularly hoping to add some dynamism to the character of the second Mrs. de Winter.

During the novel Chamberlain declares war on Germany. On 3 September 1939, the United Kingdom declared war on Germany—two days after the German invasion of Poland. France also declared war on Germany later the same day.