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novel in the
Hamish Macbeth
Hamish Macbeth is the lackadaisical police constable of the fictional Scottish Highland town of Lochdubh, in a series of murder mystery novels created by M. C. Beaton (Marion Chesney).
Considered by many to be a useless, lazy moocher, Macbeth ...
series by
Marion Chesney
Marion Gibbons (née Chesney; 10 June 1936 – 30/31 December 2019) was a Scottish writer of romance and mystery novels, whose career as a published author began in 1979. She wrote numerous successful historical romance novels under a form of he ...
under her pseudonym M. C. Beaton. It was first published in
1988
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Plot introduction
While Hamish Macbeth is on duty temporarily in Cnothan, William Mainwaring, the most disliked man in town is murdered. No one wants to solve the crime, including Macbeth's superiors who want to keep the strange manner of Mainwaring's death hushed up.
External links
UK publisher Constable & Robinson
Footnotes
1988 British novels
British detective novels
British mystery novels
Hamish Macbeth series
Novels set in Highland (council area)
St. Martin's Press books
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