The Wellspring of Death
- Published
- 1 January 1998
- Pages
- 207
- ISBN-13
- 9781568957302
- Type
- novel
About this book
"The Wellspring of Death" is the seventh installment of M. C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin mysteries, published in 1998 and running 207 pages. Like the rest of the series, it drops the vain, competitive former PR woman back into the gossip, jealousy and body count of village life in Carsely, with her on-and-off entanglement with neighbor James Lacey never far from the plot.
Key facts about The Wellspring of Death
The Wellspring of Death is a novel by M. C. Beaton. Readers have had it since 1998. It runs to 207 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Wellspring of Death. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781568957302 to find the main one.
The Wellspring of Death is book 7 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 Wellspring of Death is book 7 in the Agatha Raisin series. It follows The Terrible Tourist. It is followed by The Wizard of Evesham. 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 9781568957302