M.C. BEATON - The New York Times Bestselling author
Agatha Raisin Mysteries

The Deadly Dance

Agatha Raisin Mysteries #15

M.C. Beaton

Bossy, impulsive, and unlucky in love, the all-too-human Agatha Raisin has proved to be a surprisingly effective---and endearing---amateur sleuth. But can Agatha make it as a private investigator? After getting mugged on vacation, in what she will always think of as the Paris Incident, she decides to find out.

Agatha soon learns that running her own detective agency in the Cotswolds is not quite like starring in a Raymond Chandler movie. Instead of dames in distress with big shoulder pads, her clients are ladies with missing cats and a man whose son has run off with his car. Agatha even worries that she might be outclassed by her sixty-seven-year-old secretary, Emma Comfrey.

But then wealthy divorcée Catherine Laggat-Brown walks in with their first "real" case. Mrs. Laggat-Brown's daughter has received a death threat, and when Agatha thwarts an attack on the girl at a dinner dance, she recognizes an opportunity to show what Raisin Investigations can do. Even better, the case gives her a chance to reunite with her long-absent friend, Sir Charles Fraith. As they scour the Cotswolds in search of leads, Charles' insights prove invaluable and his charms irresistible, leading poor Emma to fall madly in love with him.

As ever, Agatha bumbles her way through the case, trying her friends' patience and flirting shamelessly with the chief suspect. Will she put her tiny agency on the map, or has even the outrageous Agatha finally bitten off more than she can chew?

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Paperback
Publisher
St Martin's Paperbacks
Published
01 December 2005
Pages
256
ISBN
031298474X
ISBN-13
9780312984748
Hardback
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Published
01 November 2004
Pages
240
ISBN
0312304366
ISBN-13
9780312304362
Ebook
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Published
01 April 2010
Pages
256
ASIN
B003J4VECM
CD Audiobook
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