Agatha Raisin

Agatha Raisin is a fictional detective in a series of humorous mystery novels by Marion Chesney using the pseudonym M. C. Beaton. They are published in the U.K. by Constable & Robinson and in the U.S.A. by St. Martin's Press.

Raisin has been played by Penelope Keith on BBC Radio 4, and by Ashley Jensen in the television series Agatha Raisin.

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Cover	Title	Authors	Rating	Hits
	Title: A Spoonful of Poison	Authors: M. C. Beaton	Rating:	Hits: 1011
	Title: Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley	Authors: M. C. Beaton	Rating:	Hits: 1017
	Title: Something Borrowed Someone Dead	Authors: M. C. Beaton	Rating:	Hits: 1017
	Title: Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist	Authors: M. C. Beaton	Rating:	Hits: 1018
	Title: The Witches' Tree: An Agatha Raisin Mystery	Authors: M. C. Beaton	Rating:	Hits: 1019
	Title: The Perfect Paragon	Authors: M. C. Beaton	Rating:	Hits: 1019
	Title: Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death: An Agatha Raisin Mystery	Authors: M. C. Beaton	Rating:	Hits: 1020
	Title: The Blood of an Englishman: An Agatha Raisin Mystery	Authors: M. C. Beaton	Rating:	Hits: 1020
	Title: Love Lies and Liquor	Authors: M. C. Beaton	Rating:	Hits: 1021
	Title: Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham	Authors: M. C. Beaton	Rating:	Hits: 1021

"This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!" King Lear (Edmund) Act I, scene ii

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"A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood” Henry VIII, Act 1, Scene 1

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"How well he's read, to reason against reading!" Love's Labour's Lost, Act 1, Scene1

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“Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me from mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.” The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2

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