Hamish Macbeth · Book 21
Death of a Dreamer
- Published
- 1 January 2006
- Pages
- 325
- ISBN-13
- 9781572705142
- Type
- novel
About this book
The twenty-first book, Death of a Dreamer (2006), runs 325 pages, M. C. Beaton once more wringing dry humor from Hamish's stubborn refusal to want more than Lochdubh, his fishing, and his gossip.
Its place in Hamish Macbeth
Death of a Dreamer is book 21 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It follows Death of a Bore. It is followed by Death of a Maid. 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 9781572705142
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780446553315
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781597222303