Even though Agatha Raisin loathes amateur dramatics, her friend Mrs. Bloxby, the vicars wife, has persuaded her to support the local tion of Babes in the Woods, Agatha watches as the ogre, played by Bert, the local baker, struts and threatens on the stage, until a trapdoor opens and he disappears in an impressive puff of smoke. But Bert never reappears at final curtain. When it turns out the popular baker has been murdered, Agatha puts her team of private detectives on the case, They soon discover more feuds and temperamental behavior in amateur theatrics than in a professional stage show-and face more and more danger as the team gets too close to the killer. The Blood of an Englishman is Agatha's twenty-fifth adventure, and you'd think she would have learned by now not to keep making the same mistakes, Alas, no-yet Agatha's flaws only make her more endearing in this sparkling new entry in M.C. Beaton's New York Times bestselling series of modern cozies.

ISBN: 9780312616267