Beaton, 2010 Illustrations by Alice Tate The right of Alison Maloney to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. A copy of the British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available from the British Library UK ISBN: 978-1-84901-319-2 Printed and bound in the EU 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Contents Introduction 1 Introducing Agatha 2 Agatha’s Past 3 Agatha’s Cotswolds 31 4 Carsely 5 A Pastime in Fighting Crime 6 Close Shaves 7 A Cast of Carsely Characters 8 Mrs Bloxby’s Words of Wisdom 9 Agatha’s Men 10 The Raisin Detective Agency 11 Agatha’s Cats 12 Itchy Feet 13 Mrs Raisin’s Reason 14 Raisin’s Questions 128 15 Raisin’s Recipes Index The writing road leading to Agatha Raisin is a long one.
