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Sergeant Hamish Macbeth - Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman - returns for the latest mystery in M.C. Beaton's New York Times bestselling series. Nobody loves an honest man, or that was what police sergeant Hamish Macbeth tried to tell newcomer Paul English. Paul attended church in Lochdubh. He told the minister, Mr. Wellington, that his sermons were boring. He told tweedy Mrs. Wellington that she was too fat. Angela Brody was told her detective stories were pap for the masses and it was time she wrote literature instead. He accused Hamish of having dyed his fiery red hair. He told Jessie Currie - who repeated all the last words of her twin sister - that she needed psychiatric help. 'I speak as I find,' he bragged. Voices saying, 'I could kill that man,' could be heard from Lochdubh to Cnothan. And someone did. Now Hamish is faced with a bewildering array of suspects. And he's lost the services of his clumsy policeman, Charlie, who has resigned from the forc

Trade Review
A complex murder plot is well sustained by quick pen sketches of the Highland scenery . . . twists in the clever plot lead you up many a mountain path in the company of Hamish Macbeth! * My Weekly *
A complex murder plot is well sustained by quick pen sketches of the Highland scenery . . . twists in the clever plot lead you up many a mountain path in the company of Hamish Macbeth! * My Weekly *
Fans'll love this Highland hullabaloo * Evening Telegraph *
Fans'll love this Highland hullabaloo * Evening Telegraph *
With plenty of one-liners, beautiful descriptions of Scotland and a whole load of unexpected happenings, you are in for a real treat here * The Sun *
With plenty of one-liners, beautiful descriptions of Scotland and a whole load of unexpected happenings, you are in for a real treat here * The Sun *

Death of an Honest Man

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      Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
      Publication Date: 21/02/2019
      ISBN13: 9781472117427, 978-1472117427
      ISBN10: 1472117425

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Sergeant Hamish Macbeth - Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman - returns for the latest mystery in M.C. Beaton's New York Times bestselling series. Nobody loves an honest man, or that was what police sergeant Hamish Macbeth tried to tell newcomer Paul English. Paul attended church in Lochdubh. He told the minister, Mr. Wellington, that his sermons were boring. He told tweedy Mrs. Wellington that she was too fat. Angela Brody was told her detective stories were pap for the masses and it was time she wrote literature instead. He accused Hamish of having dyed his fiery red hair. He told Jessie Currie - who repeated all the last words of her twin sister - that she needed psychiatric help. 'I speak as I find,' he bragged. Voices saying, 'I could kill that man,' could be heard from Lochdubh to Cnothan. And someone did. Now Hamish is faced with a bewildering array of suspects. And he's lost the services of his clumsy policeman, Charlie, who has resigned from the forc

      Trade Review
      A complex murder plot is well sustained by quick pen sketches of the Highland scenery . . . twists in the clever plot lead you up many a mountain path in the company of Hamish Macbeth! * My Weekly *
      A complex murder plot is well sustained by quick pen sketches of the Highland scenery . . . twists in the clever plot lead you up many a mountain path in the company of Hamish Macbeth! * My Weekly *
      Fans'll love this Highland hullabaloo * Evening Telegraph *
      Fans'll love this Highland hullabaloo * Evening Telegraph *
      With plenty of one-liners, beautiful descriptions of Scotland and a whole load of unexpected happenings, you are in for a real treat here * The Sun *
      With plenty of one-liners, beautiful descriptions of Scotland and a whole load of unexpected happenings, you are in for a real treat here * The Sun *

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