Returning home after an extended holiday, Agatha finds a new woman ensconced in the affections of her attractive neighbour James Lacey. The beautiful newcomer, Mary Fortune, is superior to Agatha...

Agatha Raisin’s early retirement to the picture-postcard village of Carsley in the Cotswolds is a dream come true. And how better to begin making herself a local leading light than by entering...

Penelope Keith - who starred as Agatha Raisin in the popular BBC Radio 4 series - reads M. C. Beaton’s entertaining murder mystery.During the grey days of early December, Agatha is obsessed by...

Feeling jilted and cross, Agatha follows a fortune-teller’s advice and rents a cottage in the pretty village of Fryfam, where she hopes good fortune and true love will come chasing after her for...

Agatha Raisin, retired PR supremo, has been spurned at the altar by the man of her dreams, her attractive neighbour James Lacey. So, temporarily deserting the sleepy Cotswolds village of Carsely,...

After six gruelling months back in London, Agatha Raisin returns to her beloved Cotswold village of Carsely – and to the charms of her neighbour, James Lacey. True, James is less than thrilled...

The local ladies all deem Mr John a wizard, so when Agatha finds a few grey hairs on her head—and the rinse she tries at home turns her hair purple—she makes a bee-line for the handsome...

Third volume of the M.C. Beaton mystery series, starring Penelope Keith.‘The Curious Curate’When the village curate is found murdered, retired PR guru Agatha Raisin vows to bring his...

Penelope Keith stars as Agatha Raisin in two more full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramas. 'Agatha Raisin - sharp, witty, hugely intelligent, unfailingly entertaining, delightfully intolerant and oh so...

Penelope Keith stars as Agatha Raisin in three full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramasAfter a lifetime spent in public relations, the drinking and smoking one-woman dynamo that is Agatha Raisin struggles...

Penelope Keith stars as Agatha Raisin in two full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramas.After a lifetime spent in public relations, the drinking and smoking one-woman dynamo that is Agatha Raisin struggles...

The fourth volume in the M.C. Beaton mystery series, starring Penelope Keith.'The Wizard of Evesham'. Agatha is alarmed when her new wizard of a hairdresser seems keen to take on more than...

It's very easy to kill - so long as no one suspects you.' So says Miss Pinkerton when ex-policeman Luke Fitzwilliam meets her on a train. Luke doesn't take much notice of this little old lady's...

Theo is determined to seek happiness with her husband's business rival, Vincent. Having fled London for Paris, however, she soon learns of Richard's financial collapse - and discovers that rather...

Two BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations from the Queen of Crime. ‘The Unexpected Guest’ A foggy night... a lonely country house... and a woman with a gun in her hand quietly surveying the...

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of a classic Agatha Christie mystery. ‘There’s Rosemary, that’s for remembrance.’ Published in 1945, Sparkling Cyanide is all about remembrance....

Two recently-rediscovered Hercule Poirot short stories by Agatha Christie, read by David Suchet.In 2004, a remarkable archive was unearthed at Agatha Christie’s family home, Greenway – 73 of...

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of a classic Agatha Christie mystery, starring Lyndsey Marshal, Geoffrey Whitehead and John Rowe.Ten guests travel to an island at the invitation of someone...

Lady Tresselian invites several guests to stay at her seaside house at Gull’s Point. Against her better judgment she has allowed her late husband’s ward, handsome tennis ace Neville Strange,...