- Agatha Raisin (Fictitious character), England, Fiction, Women private investigators
As a garden show approaches in the English Cotswolds, plants are mysteriously uprooted, poisoned and burned. The suspect is a beautiful divorcee, until she is found dead, head planted in a pot. Agatha Raisin goes to work. By the author of Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet.
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Classical in form, contemporary, resolved and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Marion Chesney
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 196
- Publisher
- Ivy Books, G.K. Hall, Minotaur Books
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780736675024
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Marion Chesney was born in 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland. Her first job was a bookseller in charge of the fiction department in John Smith & Sons Ltd. While working there, the Scottish Daily Mail hired her to review variety shows; she quickly rose to be their theatre critic. She left Smith’s to work as a secretary--albeit without typing or shorthand skills--in the advertising department of Scottish Field magazine but was soon the fashion editor instead. She moved to the Scottish Daily Express, where she reported mostly on crime, then to Fleet Street and the Daily Express, where she was their chief woman reporter. Marion married Harry Scott Gibbons, and they had a son, Charles. Harry was offered
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