Agatha Raisin · Book 24

Christmas Crumble

Published
1 January 2012
Pages
71
ISBN-13
9781471333712
Type
short
Cover of Christmas Crumble

About this book

"Christmas Crumble" (2012, 71 pages) is a companion short story slotted at position 23.5 in the Agatha Raisin series, following "Hiss and Hers" and, like its neighbors, built around Agatha's brash, hard-drinking style of amateur detection amid the quaint but murder-prone village of Carsely.

Key facts about Christmas Crumble

Christmas Crumble is a short story by M. C. Beaton. Readers have had it since 2012. It runs to 71 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of Christmas Crumble. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781471333712 to find the main one.

Christmas Crumble is book 24 of 38 in the Agatha Raisin series. The series has 38 published books. However, the series starts with The Quiche of Death (1992).

Additionally, M. C. Beaton writes The Six Sisters, Hamish Macbeth and A House for the Season, plus 6 more series. Those series sit on our historical romance, cozy mystery and historical mystery shelves. Meanwhile, Death of a Groom is the latest published M. C. Beaton book on file, from 10 February 2026.

About M. C. Beaton

M. C. Beaton was the pen name of Marion Chesney, a Scottish-born author who wrote prolifically across romance and mystery before finding her signature register with two long-running cozy mystery series set worlds apart in tone and geography. See every M. C. Beaton book in order.

Its place in Agatha Raisin

Christmas Crumble is book 24 in the Agatha Raisin series. It follows Hiss and Hers. It is followed by Something Borrowed, Someone Dead. See the full Agatha Raisin reading order.

Agatha Raisin is a brash, hard-drinking, sharp-tongued former London PR executive who retires early to the impossibly quaint Cotswolds village of Carsely expecting a peaceful life — and instead finds a body practically on arrival. M. C. Beaton built the series around a heroine who is deliberately unlikeable in the traditional cozy sense: vain, competitive, prone to disastrous crushes (most enduringly on her handsome neighbor James Lacey), and far more comfortable interrogating suspects than making friends. That…

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