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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Robinson Publishing (24 Jun 2010)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1849011494
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849011495
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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She's practically perfect in every way! After being nearly killed by both a hired hit man and her former secretary, Agatha Raisin could use some low-key cases. So when Robert Smedley walks through the door of her detective agency, determined to prove that his wife is cheating on him, Raisin Investigations immediately offers to help. Unfortunately for Agatha, Mabel Smedley appears to be the perfect wife: young, pretty, and a regular volunteer at church. But just as Agatha is ready to give up, Smedley is poisoned with weed killer, leaving Mabel, the prime suspect, to inherit a fortune. With no one left to pay her, Agatha has to drop the investigation ...that is, until her old friend Sir Charles Fraith turns up again to rekindle her curiosity in the case. Praise for the "Agatha Raisin" series: 'Sharp, witty, hugely intelligent, unfailingly entertaining, delightfully intolerant and oh so magnificently non-PC, M.C. Beaton has created a national treasure' - Anne Robinson. 'M.C. Beaton's imperfect heroine is an absolute gem' - "Publishers Weekly". 'The Miss Marple-like Raisin is a refreshing, sensible, wonderfully eccentric, thoroughly likeable heroine' - "Booklist".

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M.C. Beaton was born in Scotland. She worked for many years as a journalist on Fleet Street. As well as the bestselling Agatha Raisin series, she is the author of the acclaimed Hamish Macbeth mysteries. She divides her time between the Cotswolds, where she lives in a village very much like Agatha's beloved Carsely, and Paris.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Agatha Raisin and the Perfect Paragon, 30 July 2006
By Mrs. C. Rogers "KT" (Suffolk, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Agatha Raisin and the Perfect Paragon (Agatha Raisin 16) (Paperback)
This is a really enjoyable read which is hard to put down.
If you have read other books in the series you will probably enjoy it as much as I did, but if you've never ready an Aggy Raisin book there is still enough information included to get you up to speed on who everyone is.
This is way up on my list of favourites within the series.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars More characters, less plot, no interest, 1 Aug 2008
By R. Lowther - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Agatha Raisin and the Perfect Paragon (Agatha Raisin 16) (Paperback)
Unfortunetly what was once a good series of stories has dipped with the publication of the last two stories - coincidencing with a change of emphasis in the plotline.

Out as gone the bitchy amatuer Agatha and the well developed characters to be replaced with an Agatha who now cares about peoples feelings. For regular readers of the books, they will know that Agatha is not one for mellowing.

The characters which now surround her are at best poorly developed and are just too good to be true. Any obstacle is now easily overcome, any guess now becomes a fact and with it, the interest has vanished.

There is a chance to turn around the padded out plots with book 17 but I doubt we will see it happen. Much the pity, for there is a great character here which is being poorly utilised.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Agatha's Detective Agency Deepens Its Capabilities, 3 Oct 2007
By Professor Donald Mitchell "Jesus Makes Me a P... (Boston) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Perfect Paragon (Agatha Raisin Mysteries) (Hardcover)
Although this is the 16th mystery in the Agatha Raisin series, you could enjoy this book as a stand-alone if you don't want to go back. Of those earlier books, I do especially recommend the first one, Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death.

Agatha Raisin had a rough start to her detective agency in The Deadly Dance. She learned she didn't really know all that much about detecting, that getting and keeping good help are hard, and that the police don't like amateur detectives who set up agencies any more than they like amateur detectives.

As The Perfect Paragon opens, the detective business is operating more smmothly . . . if only there were more business to operate. The money is in divorces, but Agatha has tried to avoid those cases due to having been recently divorced. But when business is slow, she agrees to check on Robert Smedley's wife, Mabel, who has shown an unusual (for her) tendency to act independently of her husband. Who is she buying those new clothes for? At the same time, Agatha has the usual run of missing teenagers and dogs where she normally makes good progress.

Agatha's agency soon makes a hash of the Smedley assignment, and after that she's off the case for other reasons. When a missing teenager turns out to be a murder victim, the obvious suspects seem to be unlikely killers, and Agatha is at a loss to figure out what happened . . . until Mrs. Bloxby gives her a hint as to motive. Before the story is over, crimes are spilling out in all directions.

Agatha adds a new staff member who brings some pizzazz to Agatha's investigations, and Agatha gets occasional help from her old detective partner, Sir Charles Fraith. Being as insensitive as ever to others, she virtually destroys her relationship with Bill Wong in the process of trying to find the killer and accept Bill's hospitality.

The story has a few weaknesses that are unfortunate: The investigation is turned into more of a circus than is really needed to make a good story, agency people make more dumb mistakes than seem likely, and there are a few too many coincidences in how the key facts are turned up.

The actual mystery is better developed and hidden than in many earlier books. And Agatha mostly avoids being her most annoying self.

I think these detective-agency cases will be the saving of this series, even though M. C. Beaton couldn't resist having Agatha fall for yet another handsome man.

Consider all the circumstances if you want to get at the truth!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed
Having enjoyed the episodes of radio series that I managed to catch, I really thought I would enjoy the books, but not so. Read more
Published 2 months ago by J. Hood

4.0 out of 5 stars Easy Reading
Recommend you read the books in sequence. Sorry I missed the radio series. An enjoyable whodunnit with a lighter side.
Published 4 months ago by Bevs

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Paragon..... Perfect Book!
Another fantastic adventure, full of fun, sarcasm, hilarity and clumsiness that sums up Agatha Raisin and her crime solving ways!
Published 10 months ago by A. Lucas

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Paragon - Agatha Raisin
Another good read - this is the 6th book I have read in the series which are all easy to get into and follow a similar theme - ideal holiday reading.
Published 10 months ago by M. Williams

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