By M. C. Beaton
After years of bullying others as a high-flying public kin boss, Agatha takes early retirement to a picture-perfect village within the Cotswolds. and the way greater to make associates than through getting into the neighborhood quiche-making pageant? to make sure first prize Agatha buys her access at a London delicatessen. sadly, Agatha's ideal product is quickly uncovered - as not just store-bought yet poisoned. the competition pass judgement on succumbs after consuming it, and with him move Agatha's possibilities of rural bliss - except she will observe the genuine poisoner...
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She knew it may well simply be the police. Detective Constable Wong stood there. ‘This is a casual call,’ he acknowledged. ‘May I are available in? ’ ‘I consider so,’ acknowledged Agatha ungraciously. ‘I was once with reference to to have a pitcher of sherry, yet I won’t ask you to affix me. ’ ‘Why no longer? ’ he acknowledged with a smile. ‘I’m off accountability. ’ Agatha poured glasses of sherry, threw a few imitation logs at the hearth and lit them. ‘What now? ’ she requested. ‘And what do I name you? ’ ‘My identify is invoice Wong. you'll name me invoice. ’ ‘An acceptable identify. for those who have been older, i may name you the outdated invoice. Now, what concerning the quiche? ’ ‘You’re off the hook,’ acknowledged invoice. ‘We looked at your tale. Mr Economides, the landlord of The Quicherie, recollects promoting you that quiche. He can't comprehend what occurred. He buys his greens from the greengrocer’s around the street. Greengrocer is going to the industry at 9 Elms each morning to shop for his inventory. Stuff comes from all around the nation and overseas. Cowbane should have obtained in with the spinach. It’s a sad twist of fate. in fact, we needed to inform Mrs Cummings-Browne the place the quiche got here from. ’ Agatha groaned. ‘She may need accused you of homicide another way. ’ ‘But glance here,’ protested Agatha, ‘she can have killed her husband via placing cowbane in my quiche. ’ ‘Like lots of the British inhabitants, I’d swear she couldn’t inform a bit of cowbane from a palm tree,’ stated invoice. ‘Also, it couldn’t were you. in the event you left that quiche, you had no thought it might be taken domestic and eaten through Cummings-Browne. So it couldn’t were you. And it couldn’t were Mrs Cummings-Browne. Poisoning like that may have to be a coldblooded, premeditated act. No, it was once a terrible twist of fate. Cowbane was once simply partly of the quiche. ’ ‘I suppose sorry for Mr Economides,’ acknowledged Agatha. ‘Mrs Cummings-Browne might sue him. ’ ‘She has generously stated she is going to now not press fees. She is a truly wealthy lady in her personal correct. She has the cash. She had not anything to realize from his dying. ’ ‘But why did Cummings-Browne now not drop useless on the tasting whilst he had a slice of it? might be a person substituted one other quiche. Or . . . allow me imagine . . . wouldn’t there were a few cowbane in that wedge, the juice, for example? ’ ‘Yes, we puzzled approximately that,’ acknowledged invoice. ‘Mrs Cummings-Browne stated her husband did consider a section queasy after the tasting yet she positioned that right down to the quantity of precompetition beverages he were knocking again. ’ Agatha requested all concerning the case, all of the information she had now not requested earlier than. He have been came upon useless within the morning. Then why, requested Agatha, had Mrs Cummings-Browne long past instantly as much as mattress? ‘Oh, that was once simply because her husband used to be often overdue, consuming on the pink Lion. ’ ‘But that priceless pair – or quite, it used to be Mrs Cummings-Browne – advised me they wouldn’t be obvious useless within the crimson Lion. brain you, that was once earlier than they socked me for a disgracefully pricey load of garbage on the Feathers. ’ ‘He beverages on the purple Lion, very well, yet Mrs Cummings-Browne owns twenty-five according to cent of the Feathers. ’ ‘The cow! I’ll be damned.