Agatha’s First Case
Agatha's Origin Story Author: M.C. Beaton Agatha’s First Case is a quick prequel to the series, a short story that gives us the origin story of our now famous, grumpy Cotswold’s sleuth. Before Agatha was a PR maven, she was a young woman, fleeing her Birmingham upbringing and her first husband. At age twenty-six, Agatha falls under the doubtful tutelage of a snooty PR executive, only to steal her boss’s client, a wealthy man accused of murdering his trophy wife. Somehow, Agatha senses that he didn’t do it. No one else believes in him, and so as Agatha handles his PR [...]