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Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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"The church of St. Ethelred in the village of Thirk Magna is renowned for its team of bell-ringers, the troupe led by identical twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin. Mavis and Millicent are lifelong residents of the remote village--or were, until their home is broken into one night, and Millicent is murdered. But who's the killer? Is it one of their co-workers, sick of being bullied to practice for a big performance? Or perhaps Joseph Kennell, a retired...
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Series
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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In order to introduce herself to the picturesque English village where she has just retired, Mrs. Agatha Raisin enters a quiche in a local competition and promptly finds herself a murder suspect when the judge dies from her poisonous pie.
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Language
English
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"Sergeant Hamish Macbeth--Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman--returns in M.C. Beaton's new mystery in her New York Times bestselling series. DEATH OF AN HONEST MAN Nobody loves an honest man, or that was what police sergeant Hamish Macbeth tried to tell newcomer Paul English. Paul had moved to a house in Cnothan, a sour village on Hamish's beat. He attended church in Lochdubh. He told the minister, Mr. Wellington, that his sermons...
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Opinion is divided in a village in the English Cotswolds to a company's request to bottle water from the village spring. One side sees economic benefits, the other a degraded environment. When the council chairman who was to make a decision is murdered, sleuth Agatha Raisin goes to work.
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
1st St. Martin's Minotaur ed.
Physical Desc
196 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sleuth Agatha Raisin, rendered half-bald by a revengeful hairdresser, travels to a British seaside town to recuperate. But her holiday is spoiled by the murder of two local witches.
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1993.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Life in the English Cotswolds hasn't been all Agatha Raisin thought it would be. Retired early from a successful career in public relations, she longs for a little romance and excitement. After all, Carsley must have more to offer than tea with the village ladies. But friendly overtures toward her neighbor James Lacey have him running for the door every time. So when a handsome new veterinarian arrives in town, Agatha sees a chance to give her bruised...
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1994.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
196 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As a garden show approaches in the English Cotswolds, plants are mysteriously uprooted, poisoned and burned. The suspect is a beautiful divorcee, until she is found dead, head planted in a pot. Agatha Raisin goes to work. By the author of Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet.
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Series
Agatha Raisin volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While holidaying in Cyprus with her fiance, sleuth Agatha Raisin witnesses the murder of a woman tourist who is stabbed to death in a discotheque. As Agatha opens a probe, someone tries to kill her.