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Death of a Maid by M.C. Beaton
Category: Fiction | Series: Hamish Macbeth Murder Mystery
Done, dusted...and dead! Armed with a bucket and mop, Mrs Gillespie is destined to bring misery into the life of Hamish Macbeth when he wins her maid services in a church raffle, knowing she is likely to do more snooping than actual cleaning. Yet Hamish has more upsetting issues to ponder - his former g ...Show more
Death of a Nag by M. C. Beaton
Category: Fiction | Series: Hamish Macbeth Murder Mystery
After a romantic disappointment and an undeserved demotion, Scots village bobby Hamish Macbeth decides a week's holiday at the coastal village of Skag might be just the ticket. He's dead wrong, of course: the food is dire, and the man in the next room nags his wife so loudly and continuously that more t ...Show more
Death of a Nag by M.C. Beaton
Category: Fiction | Series: Hamish Macbeth Murder Mystery
After a romantic disappointment and an undeserved demotion, Scots village bobby Hamish Macbeth decides a week's holiday at the coastal village of Skag might be just the ticket. He's dead wrong, of course: the food is dire, and the man in the next room nags his wife so loudly and continuously that more t ...Show more
Death of a Poison Pen by M.C. Beaton
Category: Fiction | Series: Hamish Macbeth Murder Mystery
A sudden outbreak of maliciousness strikes the town of Lochdubh in the form of a rash of poison pen letters. Things turn deadly when the local postmistress is found hanged in her room ...with a vicious note beneath her dangling feet. Though his superiors call it suicide, PC Hamish Macbeth pronounces it ...Show more
Death of a Poison Pen by David Monteath (Read by); M. C. Beaton
Category: Audio | Series: A\Hamish Macbeth Murder Mystery Ser.
Things turn deadly when the local postmistress is found hanged in her room ... with a vicious note beneath her dangling feet. Though his superiors call it suicide, PC Hamish Macbeth pronounces it murder. But Hamish is soon distracted by Jenny Ogilvie, a friend of his ex-fiancee, who arrives in Lochdubh ...Show more
Death of a Policeman by M. C. Beaton
Category: Fiction | Series: Hamish Macbeth Murder Mystery
A pen pusher from Head Office soon finds himself pushing up the daisies...Local police stations all over the Scottish Highlands are being threatened with closure and this presents the perfect opportunity for Detective Chief Inspector Blair, who would love nothing more than to get rid of Sergeant Hamish ...Show more
Death of a Prankster by M. C. Beaton
Category: Fiction | Series: Hamish Macbeth Murder Mystery
Stabbed and stuffed in a closet...When police constable Hamish Macbeth receives the news that there has been a murder at Arrat House, home of the relentless practical joker Arthur Trent, he doesn't race to the scene of the crime. After all, last time he was called to investigate a death at the isolated ...Show more
Death of a Scriptwriter by M.C. Beaton
Category: Fiction | Series: Hamish Macbeth Murder Mystery
Patricia Martyn-Broyd, now in her seventies, has retired to the Highlands. She hasn't written a word in years and her books are out of print. But now a television company is about to film her last detective story, featuring the aristocratic Scottish detective Lady Harriet Vare. Even better, a London pub ...Show more
Death of a Sweep by M. C. Beaton
Category: Fiction | Series: Hamish Macbeth Murder Mystery
In the south of Scotland, residents get their chimneys vacuum-cleaned. But in the isolated villages in the very north of Scotland, the villagers rely on the services of the itinerant sweep, Pete Ray, and his old-fashioned brushes. Pete is always able to find work in the Scottish highlands, until one day ...Show more
Death of a Travelling Man by M. C. Beaton
Category: Fiction | Series: Hamish Macbeth Murder Mystery
It's springtime in the Highlands but storms are brewing for Hamish Macbeth. His life is going to pot. He has - horrors! - been promoted, his new boss is a dunce, and a sinister self-proclaimed gypsy and his girlfriend have parked their rusty eyesore of a van in the middle of the village. Hamish smells t ...Show more
Death of a Village by M. C. Beaton
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Hamish Macbeth Murder Mystery
Trouble is afoot in the remote Scottish fishing village of Stoyre, where the inhabitants are acting kind of ...fishy. On a routine visit, Hamish Macbeth finds the pub empty, the church unexpectedly full, and the very air permeated with fear. Then an explosion levels a holiday cottage which the locals ca ...Show more
Death of a Witch by M.C. Beaton
Category: Fiction | Series: Hamish Macbeth Murder Mystery
Returning from holiday Hamish becomes unaccountably worried - it's as if he senses a dark cloud of evil hanging over Lochdubh. He soon learns that there is a newcomer to the village, a woman called Catriona Beldame, and that the villagers have decided she is a witch. At first Hamish is charmed by her, b ...Show more