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Just when he'd fobbed off the last brat, another appeared to take her place! Poor Lord Anselm! The dashing bachelor was forever plagued with dying relatives leaving their female children to his care. Indeed, he had squired so many a silly miss from schoolroom to marriage mart that he had sworn...

A woman of independent means with a healthy dose of cynicism about the male persuasion, Harriet Tremayne is content with her circle of spinster friends and their devotion to literature, women's rights, and intellectual interests. However, when she determines to undertake a London Season for her...

The local society could only speculate how a pair of turtledoves would cope as the guests of the scandalous Lady Dacey. Surely she would attempt to corrupt them - an act that both Pamela Perryworth and Honoraria Goodham would see as welcome entertainment in their rigid, joyless lives. Though Mrs...

Emily had been retrieved from orphanage life for the exclusive position of companion to Sir Peregrine's hound, Duke. Upon the gentleman's death, Emily and Duke inherited a fortune in diamonds. But Duke soon fell prey to greedy relatives, and Emily had to protect herself from Lord Storm, who...

London was all on edge and astir to have in its midst the exquisite Princess Felicity of Brasnia. What scandal would ensue should society discover that the bejeweled heir to a royal throne was in truth Miss Felicity Channing of Cornwall, fleeing a match she did not want and that had been...

The handsome but arrogant Lord Charles Hawksborough desperately wanted to catch the infernally insolent thief who had held him up at pistol point on the King?s Highway and ridden off with his family's inheritance and jewels. Hawksborough just as desperately tried not to want the piquant and...

Lovely Alice Lacey was a true Incomparable, and her marriage to the Duke of Ferrant was the event of the Season. But almost none realized, however, that Alice was secretly in love with someone else - or that she had confided her feelings to a clever talking mynah bird who determined to announce...

When young widow Lady Lovelace realized she had been swindled to near-bankruptcy by her curmudgeonly cousin, she knew she would have to marry again for money. These were the very thoughts of Lord Philip, who had nothing between him and destitution but his small army pension. And so these two...

'Every new Agatha Raisin escapade is a total joy' ASHLEY JENSEN 'No wonder she's been crowned Queen of Cosy Crime' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A Beaton novel is like The Archers on speed' DAILY MAIL The latest Agatha Raisin mystery from bestselling author M. C. Beaton The team of bells at St. Ethelred...

Alice Lovesey was a poorly mistreated scullery maid whose desperate plea for help miraculously summoned Wadham Hall's rakish eighth duke - summoned him from the dead! Though caught up in the delights of being newly materialized, the duke promised to return the favor by helping Alice become a...

Poor Lucy was living a dream. She had married a gambler, a womanizer, and a drunkard. And she refused to admit that his frequent overnight absences were of any significance. The sting came when it was revealed that Lucy's parents had bought her husband for her. And then one night at a ball, Lucy...

Morag Fleming, the Countess of Murr, had been bride to the most lecherous lord in Scotland - yet the ravishingly lovely girl had never been touched. So it was that Morag had never borne a child - yet as a young widow, she arrived in London with a fine son in tow. Her background had left her...

At age twenty-three, the petite Lady Margery has already graced the rows of wallflowers for many a season. With the one exception of Charles, the Marquess of Edgecombe, the only man who ever dances with her, Lady Margery will have nothing to do with men; what's more, she does not even...

Certainly the two should never have met. The handsome, wealthy Marquess of Rockingham was the most notorious man in London, as infamous for his violent temper as he was for his intemperate ways. Miss Lucinda Westerville was a country vicar's daughter, as innocent as she was lovely and as proper...

When Lady Anne Sinclair vowed to marry anyone as long as it meant she married before her spoilt beauty of a sister, she had no idea the 'anyone' would be the Marquess of Torrance. Long the darling of the ton - and considered quite the confirmed bachelor - he succumbed to Annie's charms and, most...

Handsome, dashing Henry Wright, the Duke of Westerland, needed a wife in a desperately short period of time. If he could not find a wife, he would lose the legacy he so desperately desired. Young, lovely but sheltered Miss Frederica Sayers needed a husband just as much as Henry Wright needed a...

Nobody loves an honest man--or that was what police sergeant Hamish Macbeth tried to tell newcomer Paul English. Paul had moved to a house in Cnothan, a sour village on Hamish's beat, where he immediately started to stir up outrage among his neighbors. Paul first attended church in Lochdubh and...

Mit der Ankunft des Junggesellen Peter Hynd im Nachbarort ist es dort mit Ruhe und dörflicher Beschaulichkeit vorbei. Der äußerst charmante Mann löst bei den Frauen des Dorfes nämlich erbitterte Rivalität aus. Police Constable Hamish Macbeth findet diese Zickenkriege zunächst einfach nur unterhaltsam. Er lässt sich ja auch nicht so leicht um den Finger wickeln. Aber dann ist plötzlich von Morddrohungen und Missbrauch die Rede. Und es dauert nicht lange, bis auch noch eine Leiche auftaucht. So steht Hamish mal wieder vor der Herausforderung, einen Mörder dingfest zu machen!

Dem schottischen Dorfpolizisten Hamish Macbeth stinkt's gewaltig. Ein unheimlicher, selbsternannter Gypsy hat einen rostigen Van einfach mitten in Lochdubh abgestellt. Hamish kann den Ärger bereits förmlich riechen - und liegt wieder mal genau richtig. Medikamente verschwinden aus der Arztpraxis, Geld kommt abhanden, ehemals freundliche Nachbarn verhalten sich plötzlich so gar nicht mehr nachbarschaftlich, und die Lage eskaliert! Hamish hat alle Hände voll zu tun.

Constable Hamish Macbeth schwebt mit der schönen Priscilla auf Wolke sieben. Aber als in deren Tommel Castle Hotel acht hoffnungsfrohe Mitglieder eines Single Clubs einchecken, kehrt für die beiden wieder die Realität ein. Am eigentlich romantisch geplanten Wochenende läuft alles schief, was schief laufen kann. Der tragische Höhepunkt: Eine Frau wird tot aufgefunden. In ihrem Mund: ein Apfel. Hamish steht vor einem großen Rätsel. Fest steht nur: Auf jeden Fall ein Sündenfall...