Hamish Macbeth · Book 20
Death of a Bore
- Published
- 1 January 2005
- Pages
- 284
- ISBN-13
- 9780446507318
- Type
- novel
About this book
Death of a Bore (2005) is the twentieth entry at 284 pages, arriving between Death of a Poison Pen and Death of a Dreamer as M. C. Beaton's Highland comic-mystery formula holds steady two decades into the series.
Its place in Hamish Macbeth
Death of a Bore is book 20 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It follows Death of a Poison Pen. It is followed by Death of a Dreamer. See the full Hamish Macbeth reading order.
Constable Hamish Macbeth is the laziest ambitious man in the Scottish Highlands: a lanky, red-headed village policeman in the fictional coastal town of Lochdubh who works hard at exactly one thing, staying a lowly constable, because promotion would mean a desk in Strathbane and losing the poaching, fishing and gossiping that make his unhurried life worth living. M. C. Beaton (the pen name of Marion Chesney) built the series as the gentler, more whimsical sibling to her later Agatha Raisin books: the crimes are…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780446507318
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781587248870
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780892967957