Mrs Pargeter's Past

Simon Brett

eAudio - 2025

A gambler on the run. A widow with deep pockets. A pair of criminal brothers with a secret agenda. The new installment of the quirky, inventive and charming mystery series featuring widow Mrs. Pargeter – whose late husband was absolutely NOT one of the most notorious villains in Essex (the very idea).Mrs. Pargeter's friends know two important details about her marriage to her late husband. First, that it was blissfully happy. And second, that Mr. Pargeter was not a man to bring his work home with him. So, while the chance of her ever being asked by the police what he did for a living is, naturally, remote, Mrs. Pargeter would be able to reply, in all honesty, that she doesn't know. What she does know is that Mr. Pargeter's ...former associates are all respectable members of society, and if they were ever criminals, they are now 100% reformed. So when she learns that Short Head Shimmings, her late husband's former accountant, has fallen on hard... more