Agatha Raisin and a Spoonful of Poison

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This book is dedicated to my three bookselling angels

at the Cotswold Bookstore, Moreton-in-Marsh,

Gloucestershire—Tony Keats, David Whitehead and Nina

Smith.

Chapter One

MRS. BLOXBY, WIFE OF THE VICAR of Carsely, looked nervously at her visitor. “Yes, Mrs. Raisin is a friend of mine, a very dear friend, but she is now very busy running her detective agency and does not have spare time for—”

“But this is such a good cause,” interrupted Arthur Chance, vicar of Saint Odo The Severe in the village of Comfrey Magna. “The services of an expert public relations officer to bring the crowds to our annual fête would be most welcome. Proceeds will go to restore the church roof and to various charities.”

“Yes, but—”

“It would do no harm to just ask, now would it? It is your Christian duty.”

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