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Author
Series
Hamish macbeth volume 25
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Announcing his engagement to associate Josie McSween, police sergeant and once-confirmed bachelor Hamish Macbeth struggles with prenuptial jitters while investigating the murder of a woman whose complicated case introduced him to his fiancee.
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth volume 35
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 225 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an interfering resident goes missing, Sergeant Hamish Macbeth uncovers lies, intrigue, and scandal during his investigation and quickly finds himself on the trail of a killer.
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth volume 09
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...DEATH OF A TRAVELING MAN: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery.
Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth's life is going to pot. He has-horrors!-been promoted, his new boss is a dunce, and a self-proclaimed traveler named Sean and his girlfriend have parked their rusty eyesore of a van in the middle of the village. Hamish smells trouble, and he's right as usual. The doctor's drugs go missing. Money vanishes. Neighbors...
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth volume 27
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Police Constable Hamish Macbeth investigates incidents of vandalism and violence in a quaint Scottish village that is trying to lure tourists to its newly christened "Fairy Glen."
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth volume 16
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
215p. 21cm.
Language
English
Description
When Fergus Macleod, Lochdubh's abusive, drunk dustman is put in charge of the local recycling center, Hamish Macbeth smells trouble. Sure enough, Fergus, imbued with his new powers, becomes a bullying tyrant. When his body is found stuffed in a recycling bin, no one is sorry-including his long-suffering family. But Macbeth is surprised to find that many of the despicable dustman's victims refuse to talk-and when violence strikes again, the lanky...
Author
Series
Hamish macbeth volume 19
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
244p. 21cm.
Language
English
Description
When the townspeople of Lochdubh begin receiving poison-pen letters, no one takes them very seriously, even if they are full of wild accusations. But Hamish fears that they might lead to something deadly. His instincts prove correct when the town's postmistress is found hanging from a rope with a poison-pen letter at her feet. Though it appears to be a suicide, Hamish suspects something more sinister. Attempting to trace the letters, the last thing...
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mystery volume 26
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a dead body is found stuffed up a chimney and then lovable chimney sweep Pete Ray also ends up dead, it is up to Police Constable Hamish MacBeth to scour the Scottish Highlands to find out who is responsible for the dirty deeds.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Sergeant Hamish Macbeth--Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman--is back and may have finally met the woman of his dreams in this new mystery in M.C. Beaton's beloved, New York Times bestselling series. Hamish's new constable, Dorothy McIver, may be the most beautiful woman he's ever seen. Completely bewitched by her sparkling blue eyes, Hamish spends the summer traveling with her up and down Sutherland until finally, he can take...
14) Kidnapped
Author
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped was published in 1886 amid one of the most productive periods of Robert Louis Stevenson's career. Although it was immediately met with popular success and critical acclaim, the novel was derided for decades as a story for children before being recognized as a major work of English literature.
Set in the aftermath of the Jacobite uprising of 1745, and full of a rich blend of English and Scots, Kidnapped is a powerful work with strong Scottish...
15) Death of a witch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hamish Macbeth, Scotland's most laconic and low-tech policeman, investigates the death of a woman with seemingly unearthly powers.
16) Death of a maid
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth volume 22
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
245 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Less than delighted when he wins the maid services of Mrs. Gillespie, a notorious and malicious gossip, in the local church raffle, Hamish Macbeth suddenly finds himself investigating the death of the local cleaning woman.
17) Death of a nag
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth volume 11
Language
English
Description
Taking a vacation in order to ride out the storm of a broken engagement, Constable Hamish Macbeth visits a bed-and-breakfast at coastal Skay, where he meets an annoying array of characters and finds himself the prime suspect in a murder
18) Death of a liar
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sergeant Hamish Macbeth is alarmed to receive a report from a woman in the small village of Cronish in the Scottish Highlands. She has been brutally attacked and the criminal is on the loose. But upon further investigation, Hamish discovers that she was lying about the crime. So when the same woman calls him back about an intruder, he simply marvels at her compulsion to lie. This time, though, she is telling the truth. Her body is found in her home...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
All Sergeant Hamish Macbeth wants to do is fish and drink coffee with his fiancee. But when a mysterious stranger moves into the neighboring village, a rivalry erupts among the local women, and the men of the village start a slow burn. It is amusing until death threats, assault, and murder shatter the tranquil countryside.
20) Death of a bore
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth volume 20
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Confounded by the murder of Lochdubh writing circle's long-winded organizer, police officer Hamish Macbeth investigates the victim's writings for clues and wonders at sinister themes within an unfinished soap opera script.