Hamish Macbeth · Book 19
Death of a Poison Pen
- Published
- 1 January 2004
- Pages
- 248
- ISBN-13
- 9781572703773
- Type
- novel
About this book
Death of a Poison Pen (2004), the nineteenth book, sits between Death of a Village and Death of a Bore, with Lochdubh's gossip and rumor -- usually Hamish's greatest asset -- turned into a weapon in its own right.
Its place in Hamish Macbeth
Death of a Poison Pen is book 19 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It follows Death of a Village. It is followed by Death of a Bore. 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 9780446614894
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781587246760
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780446507271