Agatha Raisin · Book 6
The Terrible Tourist
- Published
- 1 January 1997
- Pages
- 198
- ISBN-13
- 9781568955742
- Type
- novel
About this book
"The Terrible Tourist" appeared in 1997 as the sixth Agatha Raisin mystery, 198 pages long. The series' formula holds here as elsewhere: a body turns up in idyllic Carsely, and Agatha investigates as much to prove herself right as out of any civic-minded impulse.
Its place in Agatha Raisin
The Terrible Tourist is book 6 in the Agatha Raisin series. It follows The Murderous Marriage. It is followed by The Wellspring of Death. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781568955742