Saint Marie (fictional island) Saint Marie (fictional island) Saint Marie is a fictional island in the Lesser Antilles which serves as the setting for the BBC crime drama television series "Death in Paradise". Saint Marie is described in Episode 3.3 as a "pretty island" that is "situated in the Eastern Caribbean Sea" and "one-tenth the size of its north-west neighbour Guadeloupe", which would make Saint Marie about in size. It is described in Episode 4.5 as being 70 miles from Martinique. The island is a British Overseas Territory, but was handed over to the British from the French only in the 1970s, so that
The Prophets' Paradise The Prophets' Paradise The Prophets' Paradise is a sequence of eerie prose poems forming an open-ended short story published by Robert W. Chambers in his short story collection "The King in Yellow" (1895). The sequence employs repetition of phrases and internal symmetry, beginning and ending with a similar or even the same phrase, and carrying it on almost to a "palindrome". The style of the prose poems reflects the quotation from the fictional play "The King in Yellow" that introduces the story "The Mask". The title of the sequence and the length and rhyming pattern of the opening quatrain (AABA)