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Christmas Crumble
A Cozy Mystery Short Story by M.C. Beaton
Companion Book to the Agatha Raisin Mysteries Series
Subgenres:
- Holiday,
- British Village
This book is for you if you're into...
- Holiday mysteries with disastrous dinner parties and eccentric village elders
- Amateur sleuths who stumble into trouble while trying to spread Christmas cheer
- Quirky pets causing chaos during festive preparations
At home alone for the holidays, Agatha Raisin decides to host a dinner party for the elder residents in her Cotswold village of Winter Parva.
Agatha's never been much of a homemaker, but she's dead-set on making this the perfect holiday for the "crumblies," as she affectionately calls them.
She's decorated a tree while fending off her cats Hodge and Boswell, and even made a (lumpy) Christmas pudding in between swigs of rum.
But when Agatha dumps the pudding on the head of the local self-proclaimed lothario—an eighty-five year old with a beer belly and fingers like sausages—his death by dessert proves more than a trifle as mysteries mount higher than the season's snowfall.
So much for trying to do good by her neighbors.
Now Agatha needs no less than a Christmas miracle to get herself out of this one...
Deck the halls with boughs of folly this Christmas with Agatha Raisin, a modern-day Miss Marple.
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