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Fiction. Mystery. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:Christmas Crumble continues the tradition in M. C. Beaton's beloved Agatha Raisin cozy mystery series�now a hit show on Acorn TV and public television.At home alone for the holidays, Agatha Raisin decides to host a dinner party for the elder residents in her Cotswold village of Winter Parva. Agatha's never been much of a homemaker, but she's dead-set on making this the perfect holiday for the "crumblies," as she affectionately calls them. She's show more decorated a tree while fending off her cats Hodge and Boswell, and even made a (lumpy) Christmas pudding in between swigs of rum. But when Agatha dumps the pudding on the head of the local self-proclaimed lotharioan eighty-five year old with a beer belly and fingers like sausageshis death by dessert proves more than a trifle as mysteries mount higher than the season's snowfall. So much for trying to do good by her neighbors. Now Agatha needs no less than a Christmas miracle to get herself out of this one...
Deck the halls with boughs of folly this Christmas with Agatha Raisin, a modern-day Miss Marple, who Publishers Weekly calls "an absolute gem!"
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Quite an enjoyable little read but needed a bit more meat on the bones, I think. Would have been all the better for being a longer story.
Some people don't like reading the Agatha Raisin series of books because they don't like Agatha Raisin! She isn't written as a likeable character, so I don't think she's meant to be liked per se.
I personally don't let that stop me enjoying reading about her little forays, she's a character it's easy to like to dislike!
Some people don't like reading the Agatha Raisin series of books because they don't like Agatha Raisin! She isn't written as a likeable character, so I don't think she's meant to be liked per se.
I personally don't let that stop me enjoying reading about her little forays, she's a character it's easy to like to dislike!
The Agatha Raisin formula doesn't really work in short story form, but it is a quick, mildly entertaining read to fill a free hour.
Agatha Raisin Short Story
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M. C. Beaton's real name is Marion Chesney. She was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1936. She has written over a hundred books under her own name and other pseudonyms: Ann Fairfax, Helen Crampton, Jennie Tremaine, Charlotte Ward, and Sarah Chester. She started her writing career while working as a fiction buyer for a bookstore in Glasgow. Working at show more one time or another as a theater critic, newspaper reporter, and editor, she used her British background to write a series of regency romances set in England and Scotland. Some of her regency romances include The Folly, Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue, and Regency Gold. In 1986, she was awarded the Romantic Times Award for Outstanding Regency Series Writer. She has also written two mystery series under the pseudonym M. C. Beaton: The Hamish Macbeth Series, which became the inspiration for a television show in England, and The Agatha Raisin Series, about a retired advertising executive. Her title His and Hers made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. Marion Chesney passed away on December 31, 2019 at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Agatha Raisin (Short Story)
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- Canonical title
- Christmas Crumble
- Alternate titles
- Agatha Raisin and the Christmas Crumble
- Original publication date
- 2012-12-06
- People/Characters
- Agatha Raisin; Margaret Bloxby; Roy Silver; James Lacey; Charles Fraith; Matilda Glossop (show all 11); Harry Dunster; Jake Turnbull; Freda Pinch; Simon Trent; Len Leech
- Important places
- Carsely, England, UK
- First words
- Agatha Raisin, private detective, and her friend Mrs. Bloxby, the vicar's wife, sat in the shabby vicarage drawing room in the Cotswold village of Carsley one Saturday in late November, drinking coffee and looking out at a vi... (show all)sta of sleety rain driving across the tombstones of the churchyard at the end of the garden.
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- English, French
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- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
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