Nursery
Plot
Plot noun - A secret plan for accomplishing evil or unlawful ends.
Both words in one sentence
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Stealth Pun: It's all about characters from nursery rhymes and mythology, crime-solving guided by knowledge of tropes and plot devices and the way nursery rhymes play out, set in the town of Reading, (even if it is pronounced "Redding".) There's one involving several of the NCD officers.
Source: Literature / Nursery Crime -
Song Time - the characters would sing a song, either relating to the main theme or plot of the episode or a "standard" nursery rhyme.
Source: Series / Tweenies - Christie often used an Ironic Nursery Tune to provide titles or plot points for her stories, but this is by far her most successful use of the trope.
Source: Bibliography / Agatha Christie
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