MRS PARGETERS PLOT: A MRS PARGETER MYSTERY (Mrs. Pargeter Mysteries)
Melita Pargeter, the genteel heroine of Simon Brett's series of whimsical cozies,  is hardly your typical moll. Then again, the late Mr. Pargeter was considered (by his  criminal cohorts, at least) a veritable prince among men. Now that he is gone (while his  fortune lives on), Mrs. Pargeter decides to use some of her inheritance to build a country  home. For such a large undertaking, Mrs. P. turns to someone she can trust, an old friend  of her husband's who sports the moniker "Concrete Jacket." Despite his best  intentions to keep on the straight and narrow while in Mrs. Pargeter's employ, it isn't long  before Concrete finds himself in hot water when a corpse turns up in the wine cellar--to  his dismay, all the evidence points to him. Before the cell door can slam behind him, the  redoubtable Mrs. Pergeter is on the case, aided by the shadiest bunch of do-gooders this  side of Robin Hood's Merry Men. Good writing, hilarious plot twists, and great  characters makeMrs.Pargeter's Plotloads of fun.