検索キーワード： 著者 "M.C. Beaton" すべてのカテゴリー

Maggie Baird verdankt ihr Vermögen einem Leben als Mätresse reicher Männer - und einem guten Händchen für Investitionen. Nun kommt sie als Frau mittleren Alters, dick und in Tweed gehüllt, ins schottische Lochdubh, wo sie ein luxuriöses Cottage besitzt. Auf Maggies Einladung hin ziehen bald weitere Gäste ein: ihre Nichte und vier frühere Liebhaber, allesamt in Geldnöten. Als Maggie auf mysteriöse Weise stirbt, hat Lochdubhs Dorfpolizist Hamish Macbeth genau diese fünf Hausgäste im Verdacht, nachgeholfen zu haben.

Zuerst sind es nur Abermillionen von Mücken, die über Lochdubh herfallen. Doch dann sucht ein noch größerer Plagegeist das schottische Dorf heim: Trixie Thomas. Die laute, aufdringlichen Frau hat hier eine Pension gekauft und wird bleiben, wie Hamish Macbeth mit Schrecken erfährt. Während die Dörflerinnen bald bewundernd zu Trixie aufsehen, gehen die Männer auf die Barrikaden. Denn Trixie will das Rauchen und den Alkohol aus Lochdubh verbannen und sorgt damit für viel Ungemach. Als Trixie schließlich vergiftet wird, spuckt auch Hamish Gift und Galle.

Constable Hamish Macbeth ist traurig: Gegen seinen Willen muss er einen Kollegen vertreten, und zwar ausgerechnet im weit entfernten Cnothan, dem mürrischsten Dorf Schottlands. Den Einzigen, den die Bewohner von Cnothan noch weniger ausstehen können als Hamish, ist ein besserwisserischer Engländer. Als dessen Skelett mitten im Moor gefunden wird, ahnt Hamish, dass ihm ein ziemlich außergewöhnlicher Fall bevorsteht - und dass es noch eine ganze Weile dauern wird, bis er in sein geliebtes Dorf Lochdubh zurückkehren kann.

Followers of the series will notice in this volume some personality changes in the odd assortment of retainers who keep the infamous house at 67 Clarges Street, in London’s Mayfair, at the ready for whatever entrepreneur will rent it as a launching pad into the London social season. This time the renters are an unlikely couple, the Goodenoughs, apparently father and daughter; she a great beauty, he silent and mysterious. Their secrets eventually become known to the downstairs troupe, but the indomitable butler Rainberd rallies the support forces.

Death of Yesterday: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series... Death of Yesterday: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery When a local woman tells Sergeant Hamish Macbeth that she doesn't remember...

Death of a Policeman: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series... Death of a Policeman: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery Local police stations all over the Scottish Highlands are being...

By day she champions women's rights but by night she plots romance! No young lady can be more devoted to the teachings of the infamous blue stocking Mrs Waverley than Felicity, her adopted daughter. Yet Felicity leads a secret life: that of an author of a scandalous new novel - the tale of a...

His kiss has left her flushed and disconcerted – perhaps men are best avoided after all! The Earl of Tredair has had his fill of balls, routs, and silly misses, and he despairs of finding anyone out of the ordinary - that is, until he meets Miss Fanny Waverley. Most unique and intriguing, she...

Annabelle Carruthers can only dream of being kissed by a man as dashing as Lord Darkwood. She remains locked in misery - married to a rakish drunk who gambles their lives into financial and social ruin. His sudden death - and rumours of spies and treachery - only make matters worse. Burdened...

The haughty Beverley family is obsessed with regaining Mannerling, the exquisite seventeenth-century mansion gambled away by their now-deceased father, Sir Beverley. Three of the six Beverley daughters have failed to win back their ancestral estate - settling for love matches over mere bricks...

As scandal and intrigue swirl around her, Jessica must discover where the heart finds true happiness. . . . Mannerling, the splendid family estate gambled away by Sir Beverley, remains the passion of his daughters. Beverley himself has died; the eldest daughter, Isabella -having failed in her...

'If you have a Wild, Unruly, or Undisciplined Daugher, two Ladies of Genteel Birth offer to Bring Out said Daughter and Refine what may have seemed Unrefinable. We can make the Best of the Worst' When Amy and Effie Tribble, two charming but impoverished spinster sisters, lose out on an...

'If you have a Wild, Unruly, or Undisciplined Daugher, two Ladies of Genteel Birth offer to Bring Out said Daughter and Refine what may have seemed Unrefinable. We can make the Best of the Worst' When Amy and Effie Tribble, two charming but impoverished spinster sisters, lose out on an...

'Every new Agatha Raisin escapade is a total joy' ASHLEY JENSEN 'No wonder she's been crowned Queen of Cosy Crime' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A Beaton novel is like The Archers on speed' DAILY MAIL 'The detective novels of M C Beaton have reached cult status' THE TIMES Nothing could be more relaxing or...

Modern notions were all well and good – but where did one find a man to share them? Though Frederica chafes at the restricted life she lives as the adopted daughter of an infamous bluestocking, she does agree with the philosophy: until men learn to appreciate women as intellectual equals...

Matilda, Duchess of Hadshire, was a virtual prisoner of a cruel husband who romanced his mistress right under the duchess's nose. Her only joy was dreaming of the handsome Earl of Torridon - for he, like her, was trapped in a horrid marriage and longed to find true love and happiness. Though she...

Fashionable society regards Sir Benjamin Wright with the utmost honour and respect. Yet Lady Emma knows that her husband is, in fact, a drunken jealous brute who delights in humiliating her both in and out of the bedroom. So, his unexpected murder is a blessing, she thinks - that is, until the...

Lizzie is the sixth and youngest daughter of the late Sir Beverley, the patriarch who gambled away their beloved estate, Mannerling. Each of Lizzie's sisters had been entrusted by their ambitious mother to cast lures for the various owners of their former home. Instead, each one happily married...

As one of the two remaining unmarried Beverley sisters, Belinda considers herself the last hope for Mannerling, the beloved estate gambled away by their father. Each of her four elder sisters had hoped--even schemed--to marry one of Mannerling's successive owners. But all had chosen true love...

When one of her sisters is attacked by Harry Devers, the lecherous son of Mannerling's present owner, Abigail Beverley puts her obsession with reclaiming the mansion on hold. Then Abigail meets the dashing and extremely eligible Lord Burfield, fresh back from the army and in full-time pursuit of...