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Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
When his mother suddenly dies, a young man is shocked to find that she has left him a sizable inheritance. Not knowing where the money could have possibly come from, he teams up with a plain girl with a similar background to discover the source of the riches.
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English
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Highlanders are not known for being friendly to strangers, but even Hamish Macbeth is shocked by the suspicion and downright hostility he encounters in the village of Cnothan. His popularity does not increase when he must upset the status quo during a murder investigation!
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 17
Language
English
Description
Invited to spend a seaside vacation with her ex-husband, James Lacey, at a rundown town called Snoth-on-Sea, Agatha Raisin becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a woman staying at the same hotel and is forced to step in to find the real culprit.
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English
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When Robert Smedley is determined to prove that his wife is cheating, Raisin Investigations immediately offers to help. Unfortunately for Agatha, Mabel Smedley appears to be the perfect wife, young and pretty and a regular volunteer at church. Although Smedley's case doesn't look promising, Agatha's attentions are diverted when she stumbles across the body of missing teenager, Jessica Bradley. In a sudden gesture of kindness (and good public relations),...
67) Death of a snob
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 6
Language
English
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"When Jane Wetherby offers PC Hamish Macbeth a holiday at her 'Happy Wanderer' health farm on the isle of Eileencraig, he is more than happy to accept. Unfortunately the visit doesn't prove to be the pampering experience he had been hoping for. Windswept Eileencraig is inhabited by hostile islanders, many of whom would be more than happy to be rid of the 'Happy Wanderer' and its proprietor. And the company at the health farm is hardly better. The...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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he idyllic Cotswolds village of Thirk Magna is best known for the medieval church of St. Ethelred and its bells, which are the pride and glory of the whole community. As the bell-ringers get ready for the visit of the dashing Bishop Peter Salver-Hinkley, the whole village is thrown into a frenzy. Meanwhile, Agatha convinces one of the bell-ringers, the charming lawyer Julian Brody, to hire her to investigate the mystery of the Bishopś ex-fianc©♭e:...
69) Death of a Hussy
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English
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A classic title from M.C. Beaton's New York Times bestselling Hamish Macbeth series
About the best that can be said of wealthy Maggie Baird is that inside her middle-aged body, there still beats the heart of a beautiful tart. So when her car catches fire with Maggie in it, there are five likely suspects right on the premises of her luxurious Highlands cottage. Lochdubh police constable Hamish Macbeth has to question Maggie's timid niece and four...
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Series
Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 15
Language
English
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Description
Agatha Raisin has finally opened her own detective agency. But when it seems like all she's doing is looking for missing cats while being outclassed by her sixty-seven year-old secretary, she wonders if she has finally bitten off more than she can chew? When the wealthy Mrs. Laggat-Brown walks in, claiming that her daughter is receiving death threats, Agatha realizes that this is the chance she's been waiting for. But as she careens through the case,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
The Quiche of DeathPutting all her eggs in one basket, Agatha Raisin gives up her successful PR firm, sells her London flat, and samples a taste of early retirement in the quiet village of Carsely. Bored, lonely, and used to getting her way, she enters a local baking contest. Despite the fact that Agatha has never baked a thing in her life, she is sure the pie she has secretly bought from an upper-crust London quicherie will make her the toast of...
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Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
Announcing his engagement to associate Josie McSween, police sergeant and once-confirmed bachelor Hamish Macbeth struggles with prenuptial jitters while investigating the murder of a woman whose complicated case introduced him to his fiancée.
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Eye of newt, toe of frog ...and murder most foul! Left with bald patches thanks to the wicked doings of a murderer from a previous investigation, Agatha flees to coastal Wyckhadden to re-grow her lost locks. With hair tonic supplied by a local witch, Agatha's tresses begin to flow - but the witch is found bludgeoned to death. The odd elderly residents of Agatha's elegantly faded hotel seem innocuous, but as she delves deeper she discovers secrets...
75) Death of a Cad
Author
Publisher
W.F. Howes
Pub. Date
p1999
Language
English
Description
At a celebration of Priscilla Halburton-Smythe's engagement, one guest in particular misbehaved. Boorish Captain Peter Bartlett managed to offend everyone--one person enough to kill him.
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin mystery volume 23
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
©2013, ©2012.
Language
English
Description
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 do anything to get her man--including footing the bill for a charity ball just for the chance to dance with him. And then George doesn't even show up. Only partly deterred, Agatha goes looking for him, and finds his dead body in a compost heap....
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 28
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Morag Merrilea wakes up in a hospital to find no knowledge of how she got there. She is an artist who spends time sketching faces at the local pub. Her sketchbook is missing. She contacts Hamish Macbeth who gives the story little time. When she turns up murdered, Hamish knows it is time to investigate but his only witness is dead.
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 24
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Gloria French was a jolly widow. When she moved to Cotswolds Hills, she had a habit of borrowing things and not giving them back. It was a shock when she was found dead-poisoned by a bottle of elderberry wine.
Author
Series
Edwardian murder mystery volume 1
Publisher
Robinson
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When a marriage proposal appears imminent for the beautiful-if rebellious-Lady Rose Summer, her father wants to know if her suitor's intentions are honorable. He calls on Captain Harry Cathcart, the impoverished younger son of a baron, to do some intelligence work on the would-be fiancé Sir Geoffrey Blandon. But when Harry is caught between his client's desire for discretion and his suspicion that murder may have been committed, he enlists the help...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
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.