The Passing Tramp: Wandering through the mystery genre, book by book.
At the time of its publication, The Blood of an Englishman (2014) was advertised as something of an "event" in crime writer MC Beaton 's long-running Agatha Raisin mystery series, as it was the author's 25th book in the series. Only five more Raisins from the author's hand (ostensibly) followed it before her death at age 83 on the last day of 2019. The series has since continued under the hand of R. W. Green (a man, Rod Green ), who has been described as a longtime friend of Beaton.
Personally, I suspect Mr. Green, not of having done it with the revolver in the billiard room, but of having helped in the writing of the last of the Beatons ostensibly produced by his benefactor, Beating about the Bush , published the year of her death, because to me it doesn't read quite like Beaton herself and it is a huge improvement on her previous two Raisins, The Witch's Tree (2017) and The Dead Ringer (2018), which are, to be brutally frank, two of the worst mysteries I have ever read. Sadly, they