The Quiche of Death

By (author): "M.C. Beaton"
Publish Date: December 1992
The Quiche of Death
ISBN0312939167
ISBN139780312939168
AsinThe Quiche of Death
CharactersAgatha Raisin, Bill Wong, James Lacey, Roy Silver
Original titleAgatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
SeriesAgatha Raisin #1
Putting all her eggs in one basket, Agatha Raisin gives up her successful PR firm, sells her London flat, and samples a taste of early retirement in the quiet village of Carsely. Bored, lonely and used to getting her way, she enters a local baking contest: Surely a blue ribbon for the best quiche will make her the toast of the town. But her recipe for social advancement sours when Judge Cummings-Browne not only snubs her entry--but falls over dead! After her quiche's secret ingredient turns out to be poison, she must reveal the unsavory truth…Agatha has never baked a thing in her life! In fact, she bought her entry ready-made from an upper crust London quicherie. Grating on the nerves of several Carsely residents, she is soon receiving sinister notes. Has her cheating and meddling landed her in hot water, or are the threats related to the suspicious death? It may mean the difference between egg on her face and a coroner's tag on her toe…