03072cam a2200409 i 4500 623634350 TxAuBib 20211111120000.0 210930s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781432892838 1432892835 (OCoLC)1283076442 CNNWP CNNWP eng eng rda rda CNNWP rda HHO rda CNNWP GO6 TXDPL TxAuBib HHO GO6 TXDPL TxAuBib rda Beaton, M. C., author. Down the Hatch / By M.C. Beaton ; with R.W. Green. Large print edition. Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021. 301 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Agatha Raisin Mystery, An ; 32 "Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin--the star of her own hit T.V. series--is back on the case again in Down the Hatch. Private detective Agatha Raisin, having recently taken up power-walking, is striding along a path in Mircester Park during her lunch break when she hears a cry for help. Rushing over, she finds an elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Swinburn, in the middle of the green-with the body of an old man lying at their feet. The man, who the coroner determines died by poisoning, was known as "the Admiral," a gardener notorious for his heavy drinking, and Chief Inspector Wilkes writes the death off as an accident caused by the consumption of weed killer stored in a rum bottle. Agatha is not convinced that anyone would mistake weed killer for rum but carries on with her work at Raisin Investigations, until she receives an anonymous tip that the Admiral's death was no accident. Local gossip points to the Swinburns themselves as the killers, spurred by a feud at the club where they, as well as the Admiral, were members. Distraught at this accusation, they turn to Agatha to clear their name, and she takes the case-despite the warnings of Chief Inspector Wilkes. Agatha encounters one suspicious character after another, becoming further enmeshed in the Admiral's own dark and shady past. And when she's run off the road, narrowly escaping with her life, and then another attack occurs, it becomes clear that someone doesn't want the case closed-and will stop at nothing to prevent Agatha from solving it"-- Provided by publisher. 20211111. Raisin, Agatha Fictitious character Fiction. Women private investigators England Cotswold Hills Fiction. Private clubs Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Cotswold Hills (England) Fiction. Large type book. Mystery fiction. Novels. Fiction. Green, R. W, (Novelist), author. Agatha Raisin Mystery, An ; 32. TXKPL