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Agatha Raisin. Le delizie del diavolo
Un uomo nudo sbuca d’improvviso da dietro una siepe e si mette a correre lungo una strada di campagna. Comincia così uno dei casi più bizzarri di Agatha Raisin, che sta guidando proprio lungo quella l’uomo, terrorizzato, ferma Agatha e le rivela di aver visto un cadavere in un bosco lì vicino, disteso su una roccia nota come il Guerriero Solitario e usata in tempi remoti come altare sacrificale.
Alcune cose si spiegano l’uomo è il responsabile delle attività sociali del Club Naturista di Mircester, e si trovava lì per allestire l’annuale barbecue dell’associazione. Altre sono più problematiche… a partire dal fatto che, sulla grande roccia piatta, non c’è nessun cadavere, ma solo una piccola macchia umida, che evapora prima dell’arrivo dell’ispettore Wilkes, il quale ovviamente accusa subito Agatha di avergli fatto un pessimo scherzo.
E poi c’è l’eterogeneo, chiassoso, strambo gruppo di nudisti, ci sono le inquietanti leggende collegate al Guerriero Solitario e, nei dintorni, ci sono un birrificio in cui avvengono strani furti e un elegante collegio femminile in cui – pare – circola la droga. Nessuno scherzo, ispettore qui le cose si fanno molto serie. E la verità – così si dice – è nuda e Agatha Raisin è disposta persino a denudarsi per trovarla, anche a rischio di ritrovarsi sdraiata su un altare pagano…
Titolo dell’originale dell' Devil's Delight – An Agatha Raisin Mystery
Traduzione di Marina Morpurgo
Copyright M.C. Beaton Limited 2022
astoria è un marchio di Ugo Guanda Editore Srl, Gruppo editoriale Mauri Spagnol
2023 Ugo Guanda Editore Srl
Alcune cose si spiegano l’uomo è il responsabile delle attività sociali del Club Naturista di Mircester, e si trovava lì per allestire l’annuale barbecue dell’associazione. Altre sono più problematiche… a partire dal fatto che, sulla grande roccia piatta, non c’è nessun cadavere, ma solo una piccola macchia umida, che evapora prima dell’arrivo dell’ispettore Wilkes, il quale ovviamente accusa subito Agatha di avergli fatto un pessimo scherzo.
E poi c’è l’eterogeneo, chiassoso, strambo gruppo di nudisti, ci sono le inquietanti leggende collegate al Guerriero Solitario e, nei dintorni, ci sono un birrificio in cui avvengono strani furti e un elegante collegio femminile in cui – pare – circola la droga. Nessuno scherzo, ispettore qui le cose si fanno molto serie. E la verità – così si dice – è nuda e Agatha Raisin è disposta persino a denudarsi per trovarla, anche a rischio di ritrovarsi sdraiata su un altare pagano…
Titolo dell’originale dell' Devil's Delight – An Agatha Raisin Mystery
Traduzione di Marina Morpurgo
Copyright M.C. Beaton Limited 2022
astoria è un marchio di Ugo Guanda Editore Srl, Gruppo editoriale Mauri Spagnol
2023 Ugo Guanda Editore Srl
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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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