A Medal For Murder - Facts

 

The novel is set in 1922.

Lucy owns a 1910 blue Jowett Convertible.

This time Kate goes to Harrogate for her investigation. Harrogate is a town in North Yorkshire, England, east of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Its heritage as a fashionable spa resort continues in the Montpellier Quarter with the Royal Pump Room Museum, documenting the importance of local mineral springs. Nearby is the restored, Moorish-style Turkish Baths & Health Spa. 

Kate also goes to Harrogate to see the play directed by a friend. The play is based on the novel Anna of the Five Towns. Anna of the Five Towns is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1902 and one of his best-known works. The plot centres on Anna Tellwright, daughter of a wealthy but miserly and dictatorial father, living in the Potteries area of Staffordshire, England. Her activities are strictly controlled by the Methodist church. The novel tells of Anna's struggle for freedom and independence against her father's restraints.

Lucy is offered a place at RADA. The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, also known by its abbreviation RADA , is a drama school in London, England, which provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio.

Some parts of the book are about the Boer War. The Second Boer War (11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the Boer republics (the South African Republic and Orange Free State) over Britain's influence in Southern Africa.

The book explains the cruelty that the British army used against Afrikaans, and we discover that there were concentration camps. During the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902), the British operated concentration camps in the South African Republic. Using a guerrilla warfare strategy, the Boers lived off the land and used their farms as a source of food, thus making their farms a key item in their many successes at the beginning of the war. When Kitchener realized that a conventional warfare style would not work against the Boers, he began initiating plans to destroy their farms and detain them, which would later cause much controversy among the British public.