Death Does the Hat Trick

In the novel A Murder is Announced, Death Does the Hat Trick is a crime novel. The girl at Boots kept is specially for Mrs Harmon and she found it "simply baffling" with "a lovely lot of murders, four or five of them". Mrs Harmon tells Letitia Blacklock that a recent sermon by Julian Harmon was very good and she thinks it is because of this novel. She had left it in the study and Julian had picked it up while writing his sermon and could not put it down. As a result he had very little time left and had to write his sermon in a hurry so he just had to put everything across very simply "without any scholarly twists and bits and learned references".