The dead ringer

Format:

Book (large print)

Title:

The dead ringer

Author:

Beaton, M. C. author

ISBN:

9781432853846

Edition:

Large Print edition.

Publication:

Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018.

Physical Description:

295 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.

Series title(s):

Agatha Raisin mystery.

Thorndike Press large print mystery series.

General Note:

Sequel to: The witches' tree.

Unabridged.

Summary:

The church of St. Ethelred in the village of Thirk Magna is renowned for its team of bell-ringers, the troupe led by identical twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin. Mavis and Millicent are lifelong residents of the remote village-- or were, until their home is broken into one night, and Millicent is murdered. Is the killer one of their co-workers, sick of being bullied to practice for a big performance? Or perhaps Joseph Kennell, a retired lawyer who was heard yelling at the sisters that he felt like strangling them? Kennell swears his innocence, and hires the ever-trusty (if often tipsy) Agatha Raisin to clear his name.--Adapted from back cover.

Personal Subject:

Raisin, Agatha (Fictitious character)-Fiction.

Raisin, Agatha (Fictitious character) (OCoLC)fst01089590

Subject(s):

Bells -- Fiction.

Missing persons -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Bishops -- Fiction.

Women private investigators -- England -- Cotswold Hills -- Fiction.

Large type books.

Secrets -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

England -- Cotswold Hills.

Genre:

Large type books.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Holds:

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New York Times Bestselling AuthorThe Basis for the Hit TV SeriesAn Agatha Raisin MysteryThe church of St. Ethelred in the village of Thirk Magna is renowned for its team of bell-ringers, led by identical twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin. When Millicent is murdered, a suspect hires Agatha Raisin to clear his name.

Author Notes

M. C. Beaton's real name is Marion Chesney. She was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1936. She has written over a hundred books under her own name and other pseudonyms: Ann Fairfax, Helen Crampton, Jennie Tremaine, Charlotte Ward, and Sarah Chester. She started her writing career while working as a fiction buyer for a bookstore in Glasgow.

Working at one time or another as a theater critic, newspaper reporter, and editor, she used her British background to write a series of regency romances set in England and Scotland. Some of her regency romances include The Folly, Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue, and Regency Gold. In 1986, she was awarded the Romantic Times Award for Outstanding Regency Series Writer.

She has also written two mystery series under the pseudonym M. C. Beaton: The Hamish Macbeth Series, which became the inspiration for a television show in England, and The Agatha Raisin Series, about a retired advertising executive. Her title His and Hers made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012.

Marion Chesney passed away on December 31, 2019 at the age of 83.

(Bowker Author Biography)