
Allotment wars! Lord Bellingham, Carsely`s biggest landholder, has enraged locals by saying he is going to sell off their allotments to make way for a new housing development. So when he turns up dead, poisoned by antifreeze, nobody mourns his passing. On another fine summer`s day Agatha visits Carsley`s allotments where everything looks peaceful & perfect: people of all ages digging in the soil & working very hard to grow their own fruit & veg. Agatha feels almost tempted to take on a strip herself.. .but common sense soon prevails. She doesn`t really like getting her hands dirty. She is introduced to three oldtimers who have just taken over a new strip; Harry Perry, Bunty Daventry & Josephine Merriweather are lamenting the neglected condition of the patch. But as Harry starts to shovel through the weeds & grass his spade comes across something hard so he bends down & tries to move the object. & then he starts to yell.. . The body is that of Peta Currie, a newcomer to the village
- but who would want to murder her? Blonde & beautiful she`s every local male`s favourite. And then Lord Bellingham`s son engages Agatha to do some digging of her own & very soon Agatha is thrown into a world of petty feuds, jealousies & disputes over l&. It would seem that far from being tiny gardens of Eden, Carsley`s allotments are local battlefields where passions
- & the bodycount
- run high! Praise for the Agatha Raisin series: ` Sharp, witty, hugely intelligent, unfailingly entertaining, delightfully intolerant & oh so magnificently non-PC, M.C. Beaton has created a national treasure` Anne Robinson `M.C. Beaton`s imperfect heroine is an absolute gem` Publishers Weekly ` The Miss Marple-like Raisin is a refreshing, sensible, wonderfully eccentric, thoroughly likeable heroine` Booklist