Why do murder mysteries contain so many vicars?

Mentioned in this episode:

— Measuring religious affiliation in Great Britain by Clive D. Field

— The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers

— Death in Holy Orders by P.D. James

— The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

— Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers

— Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death by James Runcie

— “The Blue Cross” by G.K. Chesterton from The Innocence of Father Brown

— Literary Distractions by Ronald Knox

— The Cadfael Chronicles by Ellis Peters

— Quiet as a Nun by Antonia Fraser

— St Peter’s Finger by Gladys Mitchell

— Close Quarters by Michael Gilbert

— The Black Seraphim by Michael Gilbert

— Holy Disorders by Edmund Crispin

— “The Guilty Vicarage” by W.H. Auden

— Busman’s Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers

— Christianity and the Detective Story edited by Anya Morlan and Walter Raubicheck

— The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler

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