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Author
Series
Raisin volume 15
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
233p. 21cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of everyone's favorite sleuth, M. C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin is as feisty as ever and armed with her famous wit and biting sense of humor. This time, though, there's some biting of a whole other sort going on. Agatha has fallen head over heels in love. Again. This time, she has her eye on the local gardener, George Marston, but so do other women in their little Cotswold village. Shamelessly determined, Agatha will...
3) Hasty death
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013, c2004
Edition
1st Minotaur Books pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
225 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lady Rose Summer refuses to abide by her parents' insistence that she marry. Even more distressing, she wants to work. On advice from Captain Harry Cathcart-a noble-born private investigator who knows Rose all too well-her parents agree to let Rose work as a typist and live in a women's hostel. But life as a working woman isn't quite what Rose imagined: When a playboy is murdered, Rose will return to high society to follow a trail of deception, rumors,...
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Language
English
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The picturesque Cotwsold village of Winter Parva has decided to warm the post-Christmas season by roasting a pig in the town square. Agatha, always one for a good roasting, organizes an outing to enjoy the merriment. But as the rotary spit is placed over a bed of fiery charcoals and the pig is carried toward its final resting place, Agatha realizes that things are not as they seem ..."Stop!" she screams suddenly. The "pig," in fact, is Gary Beech,...
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth volume 22
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Less than delighted when he wins the maid services of Mrs. Gillespie, a notorious and malicious gossip, in the local church raffle, Hamish Macbeth suddenly finds himself investigating the death of the local cleaning woman.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 30
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin-now the star of a hit T.V. show-is back on the case again. When private detective Agatha Raisin comes across a severed leg in a roadside hedge, it looks like she is about to become involved in a particularly gruesome murder. Looks, however, can be deceiving, as Agatha discovers when she is employed to investigate a case of industrial espionage at a factory where nothing is quite...
Author
Series
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
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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Series
Language
English
Description
"Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin--the star of her own hit T.V. series--is back on the case again in Dead on Target. A visit to the local village fete for a spot of fun and relaxation turns into a nightmare for Agatha Raisin when she discovers the body of the local landowner in the woods--with an arrow in his chest and trousers round his ankles. Agatha's old adversary, Detective Chief Inspector Wilkes,...
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth volume 21
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Surprised that a newcomer to the Scottish Highlands has remained steadfast to her new home in spite of an inhospitable winter, constable Hamish Macbeth learns that the woman has deluded herself into believing that she is engaged to a local artist.
11) Dishing the dirt
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 26
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After losing her temper when a Carsely newcomer tries to steal her husband and hires a private detective to investigate her background, Agatha is forced to prove her innocence in the wake of her rival's murder.
12) Hot to trot
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin-now the star of a hit T.V. show-is back on the case again in Hot to Trot. When Private Detective Agatha Raisin learns that her friend and one-time lover Charles Fraith is to be married to a mysterious socialite, Miss Mary Brown-Field, she sees it as her duty to find out what she can about the woman. Coming up empty, Agatha-out of selfless concern for Charles, of course-does...
Author
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
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murder of a local baker during an amateur theatrical production, curmudgeon Agatha Raisin and her team of private detectives uncover a web of feuds and temperamental behaviors that place the team in mortal danger.
16) Down the hatch
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin-the star of her own hit T.V. series-is back on the case again in Down the Hatch. Private detective Agatha Raisin, having recently taken up power-walking, is striding along a path in Mircester Park during her lunch break when she hears a cry for help. Rushing over, she finds an elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Swinburn, in the middle of the green-with the body of an old man...
17) Devil's delight
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 244 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Beloved New York Times bestseller M.C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin--the star of her own hit T.V. series--is back on the case again in Devil's Delight. Toni and Agatha are in the car on the way to Officer Bill Wong's long-awaited wedding when, much to their shock, a naked young man bursts through a hedge on the side of the road and comes running toward them. Terrified, he explains that he has just seen a dead body in the woods. Toni lends...
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1994.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
170 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In England, an argument rages over the right of people to cross farmers' fields. When the presiding lady of a walking club is found murdered in a wheat field, suspicion turns on the owner. Sleuth Agatha Raisin goes looking for the real killer. By the author of Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
Cotswolds inhabitants are used to inclement weather, but the night sky is especially foggy as Rory and Molly Devere, the new vicar and his wife, drive slowly home from a dinner party in their village of Sumpton Harcourt. They strain to see the road ahead--and then suddenly brake, screeching to a halt. Right in front of them, aglow in the headlights, a body hangs from a gnarled tree at the edge of town. Margaret Darby, an elderly spinster, has been...
Author
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...