Agatha Raisin · Book 4

The Walkers of Dembley

Published
1 January 1995
Pages
170
ISBN-13
9780804113588
Type
novel
Cover of The Walkers of Dembley

About this book

"The Walkers of Dembley" (1995, 170 pages) is the fourth book in the Agatha Raisin series, following "The Potted Gardener" 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 The Walkers of Dembley

The Walkers of Dembley is a novel by M. C. Beaton. Readers have had it since 1995. It runs to 170 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of The Walkers of Dembley. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780804113588 to find the main one.

The Walkers of Dembley is book 4 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

The Walkers of Dembley is book 4 in the Agatha Raisin series. It follows The Potted Gardener. It is followed by The Murderous Marriage. 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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