検索キーワード： 著者 "M. C. Beaton" すべてのカテゴリー

Das Opfer ist diesmal der Gärtner ... Agatha hat sich verliebt - schon wieder! Diesmal ist es der hiesige Gärtner, George Marston, auf den sie ein Auge geworfen hat. Doch die Konkurrenz um seine Aufmerksamkeit ist groß. Mit ihrer schamlosen Entschlossenheit ist Agatha allerdings bereit, alles zu tun, um den Mann zu bekommen. Sie stürzt sich sogar in Unkosten und unterstützt einen Wohltätigkeitsball in der Stadt - nur um mit George tanzen zu können.

Agatha non ce la fa proprio a smettere di correre dietro agli uomini. Questa volta prende una cotta per George, un ex soldato particolarmente aitante che si propone come giardiniere e tuttofare. Ma non è l’unica donna di Carsely ad avergli messo gli occhi addosso; anzi, la concorrenza è agguerrita. Una sera, però, Agatha fa un’atroce scoperta: George è stato ucciso e gettato in una compostiera. La sorella di George assolda Agatha per scoprire l’assassino, che però non si accontenterà di una sola vittima...

Agatha Raisin's private detective agency is working flat out on a series of burglaries which take a violent turn when a friend of Agatha's is murdered during a raid on his antiques shop. Although determined to nail the villains, Agatha still makes time to help Sir Charles Fraith prepare to stage a massive, hugely glamorous event in the grounds of his ancestral home, Barfield House.

All Hamish Macbeth wants is a quiet life in his peaceful home in the Highland village of Lochdubh. But when his newly-assigned constable arrives, he presents Hamish with a surprise and a secret. Getting to the bottom of the secret becomes the least of Hamish’s problems when he meets a family who have a score to settle with a sinister man who has mysteriously gone missing. Discovering a murdered woman’s body puts further pressure on Hamish, especially when it becomes clear that the murdered woman and the missing man are linked.

Wenn das Schwein Glück hat, muss der Bulle dran glauben... Winter Parva, ein Dorf in der Nähe von Carsely, begeht den Beginn der Winterferien traditionell mit einem kleinen Fest. Auch Agatha Raisin nimmt an dem fröhlichen Treiben teil. Kulinarisches Highlight der Feierlichkeit soll ein Schweinespieß sein. Doch als der zum glühenden Grill getragen wird, wird Agatha klar, dass hier eine große Schweinerei im Gange ist: Statt eines Tiers wurde der nicht sehr beliebte Polizist Gary Beech aufgespießt.

Être pauvre n'empêche pas d'avoir de riches idées ! Privées d'un héritage qui leur aurait assuré une belle rente, Amy et Effie Tribble, deux charmantes soeurs ruinées, proposent leurs services en tant que chaperons professionnels. L'annonce passée dans le Morning Post saura attirer une clientèle fortunée. À première vue, Clarissa est une jeune fille parfaite: ravissante, riche et aristocrate. Mais elle est d'une telle maladresse malgré son charme qu'elle fait fuir les hommes.

John Heppel, écrivain aussi célèbre que prétentieux, est récemment arrivé à Lochdubh. Entre deux livres, il anime des ateliers d’écriture, se délectant d’anéantir les ambitions littéraires de ses élèves. Quand on retrouve son corps sans vie, la langue enduite d’encre, après un empoisonnement à la naphtaline, Hamish s’interroge : certes, Heppel était détestable et détesté, mais qui aurait eu intérêt à le tuer ? L’affaire attire les médias, entraînant dans leur sillage l’inspectrice en chef Heather Meikle, une mangeuse d’hommes qui a un faible pour les policiers célibataires...

Une série de lettres anonymes sème le trouble à Lochdubh. Truffées d’accusations farfelues, elles pourraient prêter à rire, mais lorsque la receveuse des postes est découverte pendue, un message cruel sous ses pieds ballants, la petite ville bascule dans l’horreur. Persuadé qu’il s’agit d’un meurtre, Hamish Macbeth ameute la presse. Son attention est toutefois détournée par une amie de son ex-fiancée venue semer la zizanie dans son ex-couple, et par la journaliste Elspeth Grant, prête à tout pour élucider l’affaire...

Être pauvre n'empêche pas d'avoir de riches idées ! Privées d'un héritage qui leur aurait assuré une belle rente, Amy et Effie Tribble, deux charmantes soeurs ruinées, proposent leurs services en tant que chaperons professionnels. L'annonce passée dans le Morning Post saura attirer une clientèle fortunée. D'une beauté à couper le souffle, Delilah a reçu quantité de propositions de mariage. Mais, rejetée par Sir Charles Digby, le seul homme qu'elle ait jamais aimé, elle est devenue une implacable briseuse de coeurs qui se joue de ses soupirants.

Stille Nacht, tödliche Nacht. Agatha Raisin hat mit Weihnachten zwar nicht viel am Hut, aber ihr kleines Dorf Carsely war schon immer stolz auf seine Festtagstraditionen. Dieses Jahr jedoch hat John Sunday, ein Beamter der Sicherheitsbehörde, gerade die besinnlichen Tage als Zeitpunkt gewählt, um gegen das vorzugehen, was er als grobe Fahrlässigkeit ansieht: so ziemlich alles. Selbst der Weihnachtsbaum entpuppt sich als Sicherheitsrisiko. Doch damit ist Sunday eindeutig zu weit gegangen. Kein Wunder, dass er bald tot im Vorgarten des Pfarrhauses gefunden wird.

Can the feisty Agatha cut it as a private investigator? She soon learns that running her own detective agency in the Cotswolds is not quite like starring in a Raymond Chandler movie. But then walks in wealthy divorcee Catherine Laggat-Brown, and Agatha is given her first real case. Death threats, blackmail and physical attack soon follow, and once again Agatha is off scouring the countryside for clues and showing friends and enemies alike what Raisin Investigations can do!

Celebrated author John Heppel is known in Lochdubh as a self-important bore, prone to belittling the scribblings of the locals in his creative writing class. So when he's found dead, his mouth oozing ink, it seems a fitting fate. But for PC Hamish Macbeth the murder is more than a disruption to idyllic village life - especially when the media arrive, trailing in their wake DCI Heather Meikle, a maneater with a taste for bachelor police constables. Hamish must rekindle an old flame to escape her clutches and pull out all the stops to find the killer . . .

Most newcomers don't stay long in remote Lochdubh - usually boredom, dampness and nosy locals drive them out. But it looks as if artist Effie Garrard has come to stay. When Hamish Macbeth calls on her he's amazed to find the woman in residence after a particularly harsh winter. Unfortunately, Effie is also quite delusional, having convinced herself that fellow local artist Jock Fleming is in love with her and that they are engaged. But after a lover's scrap with Jock, Effie is found dead, poisoned by hemlock.

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth is alarmed to receive a report from a woman in the small village of Cronish in the Scottish Highlands. She has been brutally attacked and the criminal is on the loose. But upon further investigation, Hamish discovers that she was lying about the crime. So when the same woman calls him back about an intruder, he simply marvels at her compulsion to lie. This time, though, she is telling the truth. Her body is found in her home and Hamish must sort through all of her lies to solve the crime.

Amazing news is spreading like wildfire across the Scottish countryside: the most famous of all Highland bachelors, police sergeant Hamish Macbeth, is planning to marry at last! Everyone in the village of Lochdubh adores Josie McSween, Hamish's newest constable and blushing bride-to-be. While locals think she is quite a catch, Hamish has a severe case of pre-nuptial jitters... after all, if it wasn't for the recent murder of a beautiful woman in a neighbouring village there wouldn't be a wedding in the first place.

Agatha's former husband James is engaged to be married to a beautiful, young woman and Agatha has been kindly invited to the wedding. When the bride is murdered on her wedding day, naturally Agatha is Suspect Number One - but then matters are turned on their head when the dead bride's mother engages Agatha to take on the case of her murdered daughter! And very soon Agatha's own life is in danger while she tries to solve the mystery of the corpse bride while fighting off (halfheartedly) the advances of a very attractive and determined Frenchman!

Even though Agatha Raisin loathes Christmas panto, her friend Mrs Bloxby, the vicar's wife, has persuaded her to support the local am dram society in their festive offering. Stifling a yawn at the production of Babes in the Wood, Agatha watches the baker playing an ogre strut and threaten on stage until a trapdoor opens... followed by a scream and silence! Surely this wasn't the way the scene was rehearsed? When it turns out the local baker had been murdered most horribly, Agatha puts her team of detectives on the case.

Winter Parva, a traditional Cotswolds village next door to Carsely, has decided to throw a celebratory hog roast to mark the beginning of the winter holiday festivities and Agatha Raisin has arrived with friend and rival in the sleuthing business, Toni, to enjoy the merriment. But, as the spit pig is carried towards the bed of fiery charcoal, Agatha - and the rest of the village - realise that things aren't as they seem...

Agatha Raisin has never been one for enforced holiday cheer, but her friendly little village of Carsely has always prided itself on its traditional Christmas festivities. But this year the bells will not be ringing out Silent Night as Mr John Sunday, an officer with the Cotswold Health and Safety Board, has chosen Christmas as the time to crack down on what he sees as gross misconduct by every man, woman and child in the vicinity.

Incomer Gloria French is at first welcomed in the Cotswold village of Piddlebury. She seems like a do-gooder par excellence, raising funds for the church and caring for the elderly. But she has a bad habit of borrowing things and not giving them back, so when she is discovered dead, poisoned by a bottle of elderberry wine, folk in the village don't mourn her passing too intently. Parish councillor Jerry Tarrant hires Agatha Raisin to track down the murderer. But the village is creepy and secretive and the residents don't seem to want Agatha to find who the murderer is.