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Format: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Published: Jun 2006
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British
Retail Price: $7.99
Pages: 256
Unhappily divorced private detective Agatha Raisin generally avoids divorce cases, and she takes an immediate dislike to Robert Smedley, a prissy control freak convinced that his wife Mabel is seeing another man. However, Agatha needs the work, so she accepts the man as a client in this, the 16th cozy mystery to bear her name. Although Agatha can’t find any evidence of Mabel’s infidelity, the case takes a nasty and intriguing turn when someone murders Robert and the police pin the crime on Mabel.
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