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M C Beaton
A former employer’s legacy of GBP5,000 has allowed spinster Hannah Pym to resign from housekeeping and find adventure traveling the English countryside by coach. But adventure soon finds Miss Pym…
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A former employer’s bequest of GBP5,000 has allowed spinster Hannah Pym to resign from housekeeping and enjoy traveling the English countryside by coach. But adventure soon finds Miss Pym in…
Life is not easy for the poor relations of England’s upper crust, but fate and clever schemes bring them together. Lady Fortescue and Colonel Sandhurst hatch a plan: What if…
The most hated man in the most dour town in Scotlandis sleeping with the fishes, or–more accurately–dumped into a tank filled with crustaceans. All that remain of the murdered victim…
Minor writer John Heppel has a problem–he’s a consummate bore. When he’s found dead in his cottage, there are plenty of suspects. But surely boredom shouldn’t be cause for murder…
Agatha Raisin’s third adventure complete with brand new cover design.
The fourth in the Agatha Raisin murder mysteries complete with brand new cover design.
Agatha and James are the prime suspects in this, the fifth Agatha Raisin murder mystery with brand new cover.
The sixth in the Agatha Raisin murder mysteries complete with brand new cover design
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The eighth in the Agatha Raisin murder mysteries complete with brand new cover design.
The ninth in the Agatha Raisin murder mysteries with brand new cover design
The tenth in the Agatha Raisin murder mysteries complete with brand new cover design
Recently married to James Lacey, Agatha quickly finds out that love is not all its cracked up to be - the newly weds are living in separate cottages and accusing…
The twelfth in the Agatha Raisin murder mysteries
Amateur sleuth Agatha Raisin is going through a man-hating phase after being left by her husband, is bored with tottering around Carsley, and wishes men would just sod off, so…
Returning to the humdrum routine of her home, Agatha Raisin finds herself falling for charming new neighbor Paul Chatterton and becomes involved in the investigation of a believed-haunted house and…
Agatha waltzes into yet another murder investigation in the fifteenth book in the series, complete with brand new cover design.
The sixteenth in the Agatha Raisin series, complete with brand new cover design
Agatha Raisin thinks she’s in for a treat when her ex-husband, James Lacey, invites her on a holiday. But to her horror, his idea of an exotic destination is a…
Although the Thomases were not initially liked by villagers, Trixie Thomas has become a model of domestic efficiency–the perfect wife. So it comes as a great shock to everyone when…
I am Miss Lamberton. Miss Constance Lamberton. I hoped that you would employ me as your companion.
So it was that quiet, reserved Constance came to the household of the…
Everyone in the ton knew that Lord Hubert Challenge had married country mouse Mary Tyre for her dowry, but no one had yet guessed that Mary had actually fallen in…
Hired by the Parish councilor of a small community in the Cotswold Hills to investigate the murder of a jolly widow, Agatha Raisin learns about the victim’s penchant for keeping…
Gloria French was a jolly widow with dyed blonde hair, a raucous laugh, and rosy cheeks. When she first moved from London to the charming Cotswold hills, she was heartily…
I do not think I want to be married at all. I want to be rich. Very rich…
When Henrietta Bascombe opens a confectionary shop in order to turn her…
The tenth Earl of Berham does not know what to do. An attractive thirty-two-year-old bachelor, he has been appointed guardian of the young Freddie Armstrong, the eighteen-year-old grandson of his…
Includes excerpts from Death of a policeman, Death of yesterday, and Death of a nag.
When health farm owner Jane Wetherby is frightened by an astrologer’s prediction of her imminent demise, she offers Police Constable Hamish Wetherby free room in exchange for his protection. Then…
From the prolific M. C. Beaton, a Regency romance where love flourishes in the most unexpected places
From the top of his flawlessly groomed head to the waxed tips of…
I am going to die, Polly thought. The crowd clamored for a speech. Polly raised her hands, and they fell silent. From the foot of the gallows, she asked the…
Constable Hamish Macbeth looks for a killer among a singles club in this classic mystery previously published as Death of a Glutton. Martin’s Press.
Police Constable Hamish Macbeth is called in to investigate a murder at the residence of practical joker Andrew Trent. For years Trent has tormented his family with his cruel tricks…
Originally published: New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
When a Puritan miss discovers the joys of Christmas, love’s as near as the mistletoe.
The Davenport sisters were alone, without even a dour-faced maid to supervise their strict puritanical…
The Beast–that was what they called her. With her plump body and rough tomboy ways, she felt more like a clown. It was hopeless. Poor penniless Tilly could only sit…
Poor Ginny Bloggs! She had inherited a fortune, a magnificent country estate, and her benefactor’s disgruntled relatives, a quartet of querulous schemers horrified to find themselves at the mercy of…
In any given glittering social season, Edwardian London’s dizzying whirl had its share of surprises. The latest was Kitty Harrison, once achingly poor, suddenly an heiress and now, thanks to…
Certainly the two should never have met.
The handsome, wealthy Marquess of Rockingham was the most notorious man in London, as infamous for his violent temper as he was for…