Fact proves far stranger than fiction in this collection of real-life crimes, scandals, tragedies & murders which either influenced the works of the world's most popular mystery writer or affected the lives of many famous personalities involved in her long & brilliant career. ...

With World War 2 at an end. Charles Hayward is finally free to marry the woman he loves, Sophia Leonides. But she refuses, the unexplained death of her grandfather, wealthy businessman Aristide Leonides, draws her back to the suffering environment of her family home. ...

Dolly Bantry, mistress of Gossington Hall, is enjoying a doze when her dreams take a strange turn. The housemaid Mary is telling her that there is a body in the library. When she awakes, she finds its true. But who is the strange blonde lady dressed in an evening gown who is lying strangled on the library hearth rug? ...

Hiya! What would you do if your smelly brother started getting emails from a mystery girl? Ha ha! OK, I admit it was my fault.

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![endif]--> A less-than-welcome invitation to ex-husband James's wedding - to a beautiful, younger woman
- lands on Agatha's doormat.
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Agatha Raisin has never been one for enforced holiday cheer, but her friendly little village of Carsely has always prided itself on its traditional Christmas festivities. But this year the bells will not be ringing out Silent Night as Mr John Sunday, an officer with the Cotswold Health & Safety Board, has chosen Christmas as the time to crack down what he sees as gross misconduct by every man, woman, & child in the vicinity. The village shop is told it can no longer have wooden shelves which have been there since the time of Queen Victoria ?in case someone is inflicted with a splinter.? The village school is ordered to leave lights on at night ?to prevent unauthorized intruders from tripping in the dark.? & children are warned to not play with ?counterfeit banknotes? after passing around toy money in the playground. But finally Mr Sunday goes too far when he rules that there cannot be a Christmas tree atop the church tower this year. Soon after the decree & just before Christmas, Agatha is sipping a cup of tea & trying to stay awake as minute by minute of the Carsely Ladies Society meeting at the vicarage drones on when a sudden scream wakes her from her stupor. The ladies rush out of the building & into the garden to find Sunday lying face down in the petunias, very much dead. Agatha is instantly on the case, but with so many people having threatened the life of the victim, it's almost impossible to know where to start! ...

Agatha Raisin & The Curious Curate When the village curate is found murdered, retired PR guru Agatha Raisin vows to bring his killer to justice, particularly if the investigation also brings her closer to her handsome next-door neighbour, Colonel Lacey. To cheer themselves up, the inhabitants of Carsely decide on duck racing & Morris dancing. But the village fete is unlikely to go smoothly while the killer is among them. Agatha Raisin & The Buried Treasure When Agatha embarks on a plan to give up smoking, little does she know that it will lead to a treasure hunt, humiliation & a rather nasty murder. The search to find the killer leads Agatha & James to the dreaming spires of Oxford, where they soon get intimate
- in a cupboard full of E.M. Forster first editions.
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After being nearly killed by both a hired hitman & her former secretary, Agatha Raisin could use some low-key cases. So when Robert Smedley walks through the door of her detective agency, determined to prove that his wife is cheating on him, Raisin Investigations immediately offers to help. Unfortunately for Agatha, Mabel Smedley appears to be the perfect wife: young, pretty, & a regular volunteer at church. But just as Agatha is ready to give up, Smedley is poisoned with weed killer, leaving Michael, the prime suspect, to inherit a fortune. With no one left to pay her, Agatha has to drop the investigation ...

Agatha goes digging where she shouldn't...

Agatha is taken aback when she finds a new woman ensconced in the affections

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The Columbo of the Cotswolds
- Agatha Raisin is back in two more full-cast dramas based on the bestselling books by M.C. Beaton.
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