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The Columbo of the Cotswolds is on the case again in these two BBC Radio dramas. In 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. And in The Buried Treasure, when Agatha embarks on a plan to give up smoking, little does she know that it will lead...
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Agatha Raisin volume 2
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English
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Life in the English Cotswolds was more boring than Agatha thought it would be. After interminable tea parties, she manages to get a date with the controversial new veterinarian, who then has the audacity to not show up. Soon he is found killed, and Agatha is quickly on the case, trying to find his murderer.
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 5
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English
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Agatha Raisin is tying the knot with James Lacey before he can have second thoughts. After all her first husband, Jimmy, must be dead from alcohol poisoning. But Jimmy hears the news among London's down-and-outs--and reaches Carsley in time to stop Agatha from committing bigamy. Jilted by James and angry, Agatha pushes Jimmy into a ditch -- where he is later found strangled. Prime suspects Agatha and James, are thrown together again by their investigation...
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 6
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English
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Agatha Raisin, retired PR supremo, has been spurned at the altar by the man of her dreams—her attractive neighbor James Lacey. So temporarily deserting the sleepy Cotswold village of Carsely, she pursues her fleeing fianc├® to north Cyprus, where, instead of enjoying a romantic honeymoon, they witness the killing of an obnoxious tourist in a disco. Can the duo forget their differences and resume their strangely successful sleuthing
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 10
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English
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While residents of Norfolk begin rumors about the presence of fairies, Agatha Raisin begins looking for the human killer of a prominent resident when suspicion falls on her and her friend.
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 12
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English
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Crankier than ever, Agatha Raisin wants to forget that her husband left her to enter a monastery-a turn of affairs more humiliating than when she caught him with a mistress. She feels abandoned, fat, frumpy, and absolutely furious. What are her options? She takes an island vacation and joins a Pilates class. But what finally lifts her spirits is finding a corpse. The dead girl is a member of Agatha's exercise class, afloat in a rain-swollen river,...
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 13
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English
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Agatha Raisin teams up with her handsome neighbor John Armitage to investigate when the beatific new curate, Tristan Delon, is found dead in the vicar's study.
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 14
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English
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Agatha's handsome new neighbor, Paul Chatterton, shows up on her doorstep and soon lures her into an investigation of a haunted house
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Recently married to James Lacey, the witty and fractious Agatha Raisin quickly finds that marriage, and love, are not all they are cracked up to be. Rather than basking in marital bliss, the newlyweds are living in separate cottages and accusing each other of infidelity. After a particularly raucous fight in the local pub, James suddenly vanishes - a bloodstain the only clue to his fate - and Agatha is the prime suspect. Determined to clear her name...
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 15
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English
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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,...
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Agatha Raisin volume 16
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English
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Agatha is hired to find out whether a man's wife is cheating on him. She also offers to investigate the death of a missing teenager free of charge. The man is then poisoned and his wife hires Agatha to find the real killer after she is accused of murdering her husband.
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 17
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English
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Just as Agatha Raisin and James Lacey are about to cut their vacation at a rundown seaside resort in Snoth-on-Sea, Sussex short, another guest is found strangled to death with Agatha's scarf.
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BBC Audio
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2007
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English
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After a lifetime spent in public relations, the drinking and smoking one-woman dynamo that is Agatha Raisin struggles to adapt to life in a quiet Cotswold village. Penelope Keith stars as Agatha Raisin, Miss Marple with attitude, in two full-cast dramas based on the best-selling books by M. C. Beaton. In The Quiche of Death, Agatha Raisin determines to make her mark by winning the local baking competition. When the judge is poisoned by her...
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 18
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English
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Unlike quite a number of people, Agatha had not given up on Christmas. To have the perfect Christmas had been a childhood dream whilst surviving a rough upbringing in a Birmingham slum. Holly berries glistened, snow fell gently outside, and inside, all was Dickensian jollity. And in her dreams, James Lacey kissed her under the mistletoe, and, like a middle-aged sleeping beauty, she would awake to passion once more... Agatha Raisin is bored. Her detective...
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 7
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English
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"This time, the feisty sleuth stumbles upon the victim of an unnatural death in a Cotswold village's famous natural spring. Who was the unlucky corpse? The Ancombe Parish Council chairman, and the only uncommitted member voting on whether to allow the Ancombe Water Company to tap into the town's spring. Add ex-fiance James, watery politicians, and slippery entrepreneurs to the mix, and you have Agatha up to her neck in a murky murder mystery."--Back...
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 19
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English
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Cranky but lovable sleuth Agatha Raisinś detective agency has become so successful that she wants nothing more than to take quality time for rest and relaxation. But as soon as she begins closing the agency on weekends, she remembers that when she has plenty of quality time, she doesnt́ know what to do with it. So it doesnt́ take much for the vicar of a nearby village to persuade her to help publicize the church fete---especially when the fairś...
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Agatha Raisin volume 3
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English
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"Never say die. That's the philosophy Agatha Raisin clings to when she comes home to cozy Carsely and finds a new woman ensconced in the affections of her attractive bachelor neighbor, James Lacey. The beautiful newcomer, Mary Fortune, is superior in every way, especially when it comes to gardening. And Agatha, that rose with many thorns, hasn't a green thumb to her name. With garden Open Day approaching, she longs for a nice juicy murder to remind...
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 20
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English
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Agatha's former husband James is engaged to be married to a beautiful, young woman and Agatha has been kindly invited to the wedding. To take her mind off this, Agatha decides she has fallen for Sylvan, a Frenchman she met at James' engagement party. To distract her still further she decides upon a holiday and flies to Istanbul, where unfortunately she bumps into James and his fiance not once but twice -- convincing him she is stalking them. So when...
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Agatha Raisin volume 4
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English
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When the quarrelsome head of the Dembley Ramblers Association turns up dead in the field of the local baronet, Agatha Raisin sets out to clear Sir Charles Fraith's name in another attempt to gain community acceptance.
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