Hamish Macbeth · Book 26
Death of a Chimney Sweep
- Published
- 1 January 2011
- Pages
- 247
- ISBN-13
- 9780446547390
- Type
- novel
About this book
Death of a Chimney Sweep (2011) is the twenty-sixth entry, M. C. Beaton keeping Hamish's devoted pets, his running feuds with Strathbane, and Lochdubh's eccentric locals all firmly in play.
Its place in Hamish Macbeth
Death of a Chimney Sweep is book 26 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It follows Death of a Valentine. It is followed by Death of a Kingfisher. 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 9780446547390