![]() ![]() 500, etc.), and the rather bloodless puzzle is sidetracked by Agatha's ambivalence toward the lifestyle she's chosen. A mildly entertaining look at insular village life, but Agatha never attains the exasperating charm of the author's Hamish Macbeth (Death of a Prankster, p. ![]() But Agatha is sure there's murder afoot and nearly loses her own life before she proves it. The police pinpoint cowbane as the poison and call it an accident. ![]() He eats it and dies, to be found next morning by his snobbish wife Vera. Cummings-Browne, the judge and a noted philanderer. Gruff, tough, but not stupid, Agatha begins to soften her image-to the extent of entering a spinach quiche in Carsely's annual "best quiche" competition, buying one in London to pass off as her own. career woman Agatha Raisin, fulfilling a lifelong thatched-cottaga dream. The pretty Cotswold village of Carsely, where 20-year residents are called "incomers," is the retirement choice of fiftysomething p.r. ![]()
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