Hamish Macbeth · Book 7
Death of a Prankster
- Published
- 1 January 1992
- Pages
- 168
- ISBN-13
- 9780783884172
- Type
- novel
About this book
Death of a Prankster (1992), the seventh entry at 168 pages, keeps M. C. Beaton's comic village-mystery formula intact, with Hamish reluctantly drawn into a case that threatens his beloved unpromoted life.
Its place in Hamish Macbeth
Death of a Prankster is book 7 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It follows Death of a Snob. It is followed by Death of a Glutton. 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 9780783884172
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780312077013