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Agatha Raisin volume 29
Language
English
Description
As the bell-ringers of Thirk Magna get ready for the visit of Bishop Peter Salver-Hinkley, the whole village is thrown into a frenzy. Meanwhile, Agatha convinces one of the bell-ringers, the charming Julian Brody, to hire her to investigate the disappearance of the Bishop's ex-fiancée.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The Witches' Tree continues the tradition in M. C. Beaton's beloved Agatha Raisin mystery series--now a hit T.V. show. 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...
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin volume 30
Language
English
Description
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 what it seems. The factory mystery soon turns to murder and a bad-tempered donkey turns Agatha into a national celebrity, before...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
When Fellworth Dolphin inherits an unexpected fortune from his miserly, cold-hearted mother, he sets out to discover the source of the money, which could be linked to a train robbery in which Fell's late father may have taken part.
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mystery volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Police Constable Hamish Macbeth is called in to investigate the death of the unpopular Lady Jane, a malicious gossip and student at the Lochdubh School of Casting, Salmon and Trout Fishing in the Scottish Highlands.
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin volume 7
Language
English
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Description
Agatha Raisin's neighboring village of Ancombe is usually the epitome of quiet rural charm, but the arrival of a new mineral water company--which intends to tap into the village spring--sends tempers flaring and divides the parish council into two stubborn camps. When Agatha, who happens to be the PR person for the water company, finds the council chairman murdered at the spring, tongues start wagging. Could one of the council members have silenced...
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mystery volume 5
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Suddenly recently banished Scottish Police Constable Hamish MacBeth, grateful for Lochdubh newcomer Maggie Baird's efforts to restore him, must dig into her sordid past to ferret out her killer.
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mystery volume 8
Language
English
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Description
The arrival of a gluttonous woman at the Tommel Castle Hotel in the Scottish Highlands has the hotel's staff and guests thoroughly disgusted, especially when the woman is later found murdered.
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mystery volume 29
Language
English
Description
"Local police stations all over the Scottish Highlands are being threatened with closure. This presents the perfect opportunity for Detective Chief Inspector Blair, who would love nothing more than to get rid of Sergeant Hamish Macbeth. Blair suggests that Cyril Sessions, a keen young police officer, visit the town of Lochdubh to monitor exactly what Macbeth does every day. Macbeth hears about Blair's plan and is prepared to insure that Cyril returns...
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mystery volume 33
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"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...
12) Hiss and hers
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin mystery volume 23
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Having fallen hopelessly in love with local gardener George Marston, a shameless Agatha Raisin donates the money for a charity ball in the hope of dancing with him, only to discover that he has been murdered by a killer who caused him to be bitten by a poisonous snake.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Nobody in the Scottish town of Cnothan had much liked William Mainwaring. The abrasive Englishman rubbed everyone the wrong way. And now that he's been murdered, nobody seems to mind. Constable Hamish Macbeth happens to be on temporary duty in Cnothan when the killer strikes, and now, like it or not, he's got to solve the crime and bring the killer to justice. But the closed-mouthed locals seem to be hiding many secrets. And as Hamish slowly pieces...
14) Death of a liar
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mystery volume 30
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Sergeant Hamish Macbeth is alarmed to receive a report from a woman in the small village of Cronish in the Scottish Highlands. She has been brutally attacked and the criminal is on the loose. But upon further investigation, Hamish discovers that she was lying about the crime. So when the same woman calls him back about an intruder, he simply marvels at her compulsion to lie. This time, though, she is telling the truth. Her body is found in her home...
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin volume 27
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When a wealthy land developer who had been planning to turn a community garden into a housing estate winds up dead, Agatha Raisin is hired by the victim's accused son to clear him of suspicion and identify the real killer among numerous suspects.
17) Death of a nurse
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mystery volume 31
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman, Hamish Macbeth, investigates the murder of a nurse.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
©1994
Language
English
Description
When Peter Hynd, a very handsome man, arrives in the Scottish highland village of Lochdubh, the aerobics business booms and so does the hairdresser's, the local ladies falling over each other to meet him. All of which is of great amusement to Hamish Macbeth, the local copper, until the body of one of his conquests is found on a beach and Hynd disappears. By the author of Death of a Travelling Man.
19) Death of a nag
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mystery volume 11
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In a Scottish seaside resort, policeman Hamish MacBeth, is having a depressing holiday. The food is dreadful and the man in the adjoining room won't stop nagging his wife. Things liven up, however, when strolling on the beach MacBeth discovers the husband's body floating in the water.
20) Dishing the dirt
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin volume 26
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Agatha Raisin is back and finds that she must prove her own innocence when a local therapist turns up dead.
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