Hamish Macbeth · Book 1
Death of a Gossip
- Published
- 1 January 1985
- Pages
- 201
- ISBN-13
- 9780783814728
- Type
- novel
About this book
Death of a Gossip (1985) opens the series in Lochdubh, the fictional Highland coastal village where lanky, red-headed constable Hamish Macbeth would rather poach salmon and gossip than chase the promotion that would drag him to a desk in Strathbane. M. C. Beaton wrote it at 201 pages, setting the sly comic register the whole run would keep.
Its place in Hamish Macbeth
Death of a Gossip is book 1 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It is followed by Death of a Cad. 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 9780783814728
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780553407914
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780553506648