Hamish Macbeth · Book 5
Death of a Hussy
- Published
- 1 January 1990
- Pages
- 164
- ISBN-13
- 9780312050719
- Type
- novel
About this book
Death of a Hussy (1990) is the fifth entry, 164 pages, arriving between Death of a Perfect Wife and Death of a Snob as Hamish's Highland gossip network once again proves more useful than official police work.
Its place in Hamish Macbeth
Death of a Hussy is book 5 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It follows Death of a Perfect Wife. It is followed by Death of a Snob. 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 9780312050719
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780783886640
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780553409673