Beating about the bush / M.C. Beaton.

By:

Beaton, M. C., pseud, 1936-2019 [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Beaton, M. C., Agatha Raisin mystery ; book 30.Publisher: London : Constable, 2019Description: xii, 237 pages ; 23 cmISBN:

9781472126993
1472126998

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Genre/Form:

Detective and mystery stories.

Summary: 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 bringing her ridicule and shame. To add to her woes, Agatha finds herself grappling with growing feelings for her friend and occasional lover, Sir Charles Fraith. Then, as a possible solution to the factory murder unfolds, her own life is thrown into deadly peril. Will Agatha get her man at last? Or will the killer get her first?

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Suspense	Stratford Fiction	Fiction	BEA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		A00858285

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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 bringing her ridicule and shame. To add to her woes, Agatha finds herself grappling with growing feelings for her friend and occasional lover, Sir Charles Fraith. Then, as a possible solution to the factory murder unfolds, her own life is thrown into deadly peril. Will Agatha get her man at last? Or will the killer get her first?

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