β Scribed by Beaton, M. C.
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Agatha Raisin is lonely. Busy as she is with her detective agency and
the meetings of the Carsely Ladies' Society, she still misses her
ex-husband, James Lacey, so she welcomes his return to the cottage next
door with her usual triumph of optimism over experience---especially
when he invites her on holiday at a surprise location that was once very
dear to him. With visions of a romantic hideaway in Italy or the
Pacific dancing in her head, Agatha goes off happily with James
to...Snoth-on-Sea, in Sussex.
While James may have fond memories of
boyhood holidays there, Snoth-on-Sea has seen better days, as has the
once-grand Palace Hotel, now run-down and tacky and freezing cold. Nor
do the other guests have much to recommend them, especially the brassy
honeymoon couple, Mr. and Mrs. Jankers, who pick a fight with Agatha in
the dining room. But trouble has a way of following Agatha even if
romance does not: Just as she and James are preparing to flee to warmer
climes, Geraldine Jankers is found dead on the beach---strangled with
Agatha's scarf. So much for Agatha's holiday fantasies: Not only is it
time to put her detective skills to work, but the police are not even
sure that she'll be allowed to leave town.
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