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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...

"Oh to be as beautiful as Euphemia!" plain Jane Hart sighs when she joins her sister Euphemia at Number 67 Clarges Street for the season. Then Lord Tregarthan might notice her, as she had noticed him and forever lost her heart to the most eligible bachelor of the town. But Euphemia’s fate is to flirt through balls and into the arms of a marquis, while Jane’s is to stay home, amusing herself with snooping into the strange death of Miss Clara Vere-Baxton, a former tenant of Number 67.

La détective Agatha Raisin s'est récemment mise à la marche sportive : c'est bon pour la santé, mais... pas de tout repos ! Sur le terrain de boulingrin d'un parc, le corps d'un vieux monsieur lui fait accélérer le pas. Harry Nelson, surnommé l'Amiral, aurait succombé un herbicide conservé dans une bouteille de rhum.

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 nouvelle enquête pour Hamish Macbeth... trouvera-t-il le coupable avant que celui-ci ne finisse son grand ménage ?

Agatha Raisin's detective agency has become so successful that now all she wants is some R&R. But as soon as she cuts back her hours, Agatha remembers that when she has too much quality time, she doesn't know what to do with it. So it doesn't take much for the vicar of a nearby village to persuade her to help publicize the church fete, especially when the fair's organizer, George Selby, happens to be a gorgeous widower.

What clever woman would want a man like Lord Harry Desire? Why, he was clearly a lummox - languid, vain, and bland. Not even his beautiful face could redeem him. But he stood to inherit a vast fortune, and that was good enough for Deirdre's father, a spendthrift vicar who arranged the match to rescue himself from imminent financial collapse. Leave it to Deirdre to contrive an escape, a quick elopement with her one true love, the dashing Guy Wentwater.

Owing to an unfortunate wager made by Sir Philip, the poor relations are once again scrounging around for a plan for solvency. This time it is Colonel Sandhurst to the rescue. After happening on Sir Randolph’s lovely daughter Frederica, who is running away to escape an awful marriage to Lord Bewley, the Colonel devises a plan to force Sir Randolph to settle his bill for six month’s stay and to save Frederica from her fate. The clever plan is thwarted when Lord Bewley shows up at the drop point instead of Sir Randolph.

After being nearly killed by both a hired hit man and her former secretary, Agatha Raisin could use some low-key cases. So when Robert Smedley walks through the door of her detective agency, determined to prove that his wife is cheating on him, Raisin Investigations immediately offers to help. Unfortunately for Agatha, Mabel Smedley appears to be the perfect wife: young, pretty, and a regular volunteer at church. But just as Agatha is ready to give up, Smedley is poisoned with weed killer, leaving Mabel, the prime suspect, poised to inherit a fortune.

Lady Jane Lovelace has conceived the idea of approaching the most notorious man-about-town, Lord Charles Welbourne, with a most unique proposition. When he counters her offer with a condition that he thinks will halt her impudence, much to the surprise of both, she accepts. A novel of passion and intrigue, The Westerby Inheritance is a thrilling installment in an emotionally charged romantic saga, all played out against a backdrop of elegant 18th-century society.

As the youngest of four unmarried vicar's daughters, Frederica feared her destiny was to die of tedium in the sleepy village of Barton Sub Edge. Her looks deemed "unfortunate", her willful notions damned as "difficult", she never dreamt the arrival of a rake would challenge her fate in the most surprising way.

A cinquant’anni, Agatha Raisin ha deciso di cambiare vita: chiude la sua società londinese di PR e si trasferisce nei pittoreschi Cotswolds, nel cuore dell’Inghilterra. Tuttavia, se a Londra non si era accorta di non avere amici, giunta nel villaggio di Carsely la solitudine le sembra intollerabile. Così decide non soltanto di farsi conoscere, ma di diventare anche popolare. Come? Per esempio partecipando a una gara culinaria. E se non si è capaci di cucinare? Basta un rapido viaggio a Londra per procurarsi un’ottima quiche. E se poi il giudice della gara muore mangiando la quiche?

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.

Questa è la storia di come Agatha Raisin, figlia dei bassifondi di Birmingham, sia arrivata a dirigere una prestigiosa agenzia londinese di pubbliche relazioni. Non aspettatevi una favola, però, dato che in questa storia c’è tutta la determinazione e la rabbia di una giovane donna in fuga da una complicata situazione familiare, sposatasi solo per scoprire che il marito era un ubriacone, e che ha dovuto lavorare sodo per sbarcare il lunario.

Lovely but penniless Harriet Metcalf is aghast when a nobleman’s will names her guardian of his snobbish twin daughters when they come out during the next London Season! But is innocent Harriet wily enough for the intrigues of the ton—or its two most eligible bachelors, the Marquess of Huntingdon and Lord Vere?

Arranging a season for an unruly young lady whose habit is to enter drawing rooms by sliding down banisters presents a challenge at best - especially since the hoydenish Mira has a sister of incomparable grace and beauty. Mira isn’t at all daunted by the local society and its ridiculous marriage mart. Her heart belongs to Lord Charles, who has been the object of her dreams ever since she was a child. But alas, Charles has eyes only for her ever-perfect sister, Drusilla.

Que font des aristocrates désargentés qui veulent garder un certain style dans le Londres du XIXe siècle ? Ils ouvrent un hôtel !

Malgré son rang, lady Fortescue, veuve septuagénaire, n’a ni rente ni héritage pour vivre dignement. Lasse de dépendre de la charité familiale, elle renonce cependant à se séparer de sa grande demeure décrépite de Bond Street et de ses domestiques qu’elle ne paye plus depuis longtemps... Surgit alors la folle idée de faire cause commune avec d’autres infortunés et de transformer sa maison en hôtel.

Jenny Sutherland is pretty, but the lovely country girl is also vain. Her guardian has decided that a London season is just the thing to give the fair Jenny a sorely deserved set-down. Meanwhile, the handsome Duke of Pelham, owner of 67 Clarges Street, has returned from Europe at last - to find a wife. Used to women doting on him, the Duke turns the ton against the disdainful Jenny who dares to spurn him at her very first London soiree. Alas, he’s fallen in love with the miss he’s just ruined!

La vita nei pittoreschi Cotswolds è noiosa e i tentativi di Agatha Raisin di ammaliare James Lacey, il suo affascinante vicino, falliscono uno dopo l’altro. Ma adesso in paese è arrivato un nuovo veterinario, nella cui sala d’aspetto c’è sempre una lunga fila di donne... Un po’ per competizione, un po’ per far ingelosire James, Agatha porta il suo sanissimo gatto a fare una visita e ne esce con un invito a cena. Purtroppo però il bel veterinario muore in seguito a un incidente. Morte accidentale o omicidio?

Is Number 67 Clarges Steet the unluckiest house in Mayfair? Every season the beau mondes of the Regency would hire a house in the heart of London’s fashionable West End at disproportionately high rent for often inferior accommodation and yet Number 67 Clarges Street, a town house complete with staff, remains vacant from year to year. Could it be that it is associated with ill luck and even death? Something must be done so that the servants of this house don’t lose their livelihood.