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Section 1: "Agios Nikolaos, Crete" through "Lisa Treherne"

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Horowitz, Anthony. Moonflower Murders. HarperCollins Publishers, 2020. Digital Edition.

• "Agios Nikolaos, Crete," begins with the narrator, Susan Ryland, attempting to write a short description of the Polydorus, a small upscale hotel that she co-owns and manages.

• The hotel is on the beach near Agios Nikolaos, a small town in Crete.

• The narrator reveals that she is 48 and a former editor from London.

• She is clearly both charmed and frustrated by the Greek temperament, complaining about the unreliability of her employees but also commenting on the intense and lofty emotions she sees Greeks as capable of.

• She finds running the hotel exhausting, and misses the comforts of her life in London.

• She does, however, admit that Greece is beautiful and that she enjoys the food.

• She says that she is...

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