Hamish Macbeth · Book 16
Death of a Dustman
- Published
- 1 January 2001
- Pages
- 254
- ISBN-13
- 9781405631211
- Type
- novel
About this book
Death of a Dustman, the sixteenth entry, appeared in 2001 following Death of an Addict and preceding Death of a Celebrity, M. C. Beaton once again mining Highland village life for both comedy and murder.
Its place in Hamish Macbeth
Death of a Dustman is book 16 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It follows Death of an Addict. It is followed by Death of a Celebrity. 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 9781405631211
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780892966318
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781405631228