Hamish Macbeth · Book 8
Death of a Glutton
- Published
- 1 January 1993
- Pages
- 176
- ISBN-13
- 9780804112123
- Type
- novel
About this book
Death of a Glutton (1993) is the eighth book at 176 pages, one of two Hamish Macbeth novels Beaton published that year, sending the constable after a case that turns Lochdubh's usual gossip into genuine intrigue.
Its place in Hamish Macbeth
Death of a Glutton is book 8 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It follows Death of a Prankster. It is followed by Death of a Travelling Man. 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 9780804112123