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Il primo caso / La quiche letale
I primi due romanzi di una serie di culto in tutto il mondo
«'Agatha Raisin è una simpatica detective che indaga nell'incantevole campagna inglese, fatta di cottage, tè e cattura assassini, ma si rimbambisce d'amore per uomini sempre sbagliati.'»
La Stampa - Bruno Ventavoli
Il primo caso di Agatha Come mai Agatha, figlia dei bassifondi di Birmingham e dopo aver fatto la pr a Londra, ha deciso di aprire un’agenzia investigativa nei Cotswolds, una delle zone più pittoresche dell’Inghilterra?
Sicuramente c’entrano una complicata situazione familiare, un marito ubriacone e un lavoro troppo stressante. Ma, oltre al desiderio di fuggire da tutto questo, c’è il fatto che essere una detective permette di raddrizzare dei torti, di punire i malvagi e di aiutare la giustizia. E di ficcare il naso nella vita degli altri…
La quiche letale I Cotswolds saranno anche pittoreschi, però Agatha, appena arrivata, si annoia e non ha amici. Così decide di partecipare a una gara culinaria e, dato che è negata in cucina, si presenta con una deliziosa quiche comprata in città. Ma quando il giudice che la assaggia muore avvelenato, Agatha si trova improvvisamente al centro dell’attenzione, perché tutti la credono un’assassina (e un’imbrogliona): quindi, per salvare sé stessa e la sua reputazione, non può far altro che mettersi a indagare su quella brutta faccenda… Certo, forse ci sono modi più semplici per fare amicizia, ma Agatha è fatta così…
«'Agatha Raisin è una simpatica detective che indaga nell'incantevole campagna inglese, fatta di cottage, tè e cattura assassini, ma si rimbambisce d'amore per uomini sempre sbagliati.'»
La Stampa - Bruno Ventavoli
Il primo caso di Agatha Come mai Agatha, figlia dei bassifondi di Birmingham e dopo aver fatto la pr a Londra, ha deciso di aprire un’agenzia investigativa nei Cotswolds, una delle zone più pittoresche dell’Inghilterra?
Sicuramente c’entrano una complicata situazione familiare, un marito ubriacone e un lavoro troppo stressante. Ma, oltre al desiderio di fuggire da tutto questo, c’è il fatto che essere una detective permette di raddrizzare dei torti, di punire i malvagi e di aiutare la giustizia. E di ficcare il naso nella vita degli altri…
La quiche letale I Cotswolds saranno anche pittoreschi, però Agatha, appena arrivata, si annoia e non ha amici. Così decide di partecipare a una gara culinaria e, dato che è negata in cucina, si presenta con una deliziosa quiche comprata in città. Ma quando il giudice che la assaggia muore avvelenato, Agatha si trova improvvisamente al centro dell’attenzione, perché tutti la credono un’assassina (e un’imbrogliona): quindi, per salvare sé stessa e la sua reputazione, non può far altro che mettersi a indagare su quella brutta faccenda… Certo, forse ci sono modi più semplici per fare amicizia, ma Agatha è fatta così…
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Published July 12, 2024
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Marion Chesney Gibbons
aka: Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Marion Chesney, Charlotte Ward, Sarah Chester.
Marion Chesney was born on 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, and started her first job as a bookseller in charge of the fiction department in John Smith & Sons Ltd. While bookselling, by chance, she got an offer from the Scottish Daily Mail to review variety shows and quickly rose to be their theatre critic. She left Smith’s to join Scottish Field magazine as a secretary in the advertising department, without any shorthand or typing, but quickly got the job of fashion editor instead. She then moved to the Scottish Daily Express where she reported mostly on crime. This was followed by a move to Fleet Street to the Daily Express where she became chief woman reporter. After marrying Harry Scott Gibbons and having a son, Charles, Marion went to the United States where Harry had been offered the job of editor of the Oyster Bay Guardian. When that didn’t work out, they went to Virginia and Marion worked as a waitress in a greasy spoon on the Jefferson Davies in Alexandria while Harry washed the dishes. Both then got jobs on Rupert Murdoch’s new tabloid, The Star, and moved to New York.
Anxious to spend more time at home with her small son, Marion, urged by her husband, started to write historical romances in 1977. After she had written over 100 of them under her maiden name, Marion Chesney, and under the pseudonyms: Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Charlotte Ward, and Sarah Chester, she getting fed up with 1714 to 1910, she began to write detectives stories in 1985 under the pseudonym of M. C. Beaton. On a trip from the States to Sutherland on holiday, a course at a fishing school inspired the first Constable Hamish Macbeth story. They returned to Britain and bought a croft house and croft in Sutherland where Harry reared a flock of black sheep. But Charles was at school, in London so when he finished and both tired of the long commute to the north of Scotland, they moved to the Cotswolds where Agatha Raisin was created.
Learn more on her website!
Marion Chesney Gibbons
aka: Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Marion Chesney, Charlotte Ward, Sarah Chester.
Marion Chesney was born on 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, and started her first job as a bookseller in charge of the fiction department in John Smith & Sons Ltd. While bookselling, by chance, she got an offer from the Scottish Daily Mail to review variety shows and quickly rose to be their theatre critic. She left Smith’s to join Scottish Field magazine as a secretary in the advertising department, without any shorthand or typing, but quickly got the job of fashion editor instead. She then moved to the Scottish Daily Express where she reported mostly on crime. This was followed by a move to Fleet Street to the Daily Express where she became chief woman reporter. After marrying Harry Scott Gibbons and having a son, Charles, Marion went to the United States where Harry had been offered the job of editor of the Oyster Bay Guardian. When that didn’t work out, they went to Virginia and Marion worked as a waitress in a greasy spoon on the Jefferson Davies in Alexandria while Harry washed the dishes. Both then got jobs on Rupert Murdoch’s new tabloid, The Star, and moved to New York.
Anxious to spend more time at home with her small son, Marion, urged by her husband, started to write historical romances in 1977. After she had written over 100 of them under her maiden name, Marion Chesney, and under the pseudonyms: Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Charlotte Ward, and Sarah Chester, she getting fed up with 1714 to 1910, she began to write detectives stories in 1985 under the pseudonym of M. C. Beaton. On a trip from the States to Sutherland on holiday, a course at a fishing school inspired the first Constable Hamish Macbeth story. They returned to Britain and bought a croft house and croft in Sutherland where Harry reared a flock of black sheep. But Charles was at school, in London so when he finished and both tired of the long commute to the north of Scotland, they moved to the Cotswolds where Agatha Raisin was created.
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February 10, 2025
Non c'è nulla di meglio di un giallo lieve e leggero mentre si passano ore ad aspettare :)
July 19, 2025
il primo caso più una bella botta di culo..
August 2, 2025
Personalmente ho trovato il racconto molto lento e ripetitivo.....insomma per essere un giallo, anche se pur leggero, molto lento
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