Hamish Macbeth · Book 4
Death of a Perfect Wife
- Published
- 1 January 1989
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN-13
- 9780446614733
- Type
- novel
About this book
M. C. Beaton's fourth Hamish Macbeth novel, Death of a Perfect Wife (1989), runs 192 pages and sits between Death of an Outsider and Death of a Hussy, continuing the village constable's habit of outdoing Strathbane despite himself.
Its place in Hamish Macbeth
Death of a Perfect Wife is book 4 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It follows Death of an Outsider. It is followed by Death of a Hussy. 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 9780312033224
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780783882130
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