Hamish Macbeth · Book 14
Death of a Scriptwriter
- Published
- 1 January 1998
- Pages
- 219
- ISBN-13
- 9780446606981
- Type
- novel
About this book
Death of a Scriptwriter (1998), the fourteenth entry at 219 pages, sits between Death of a Dentist and Death of an Addict, bringing outside attention -- and disruption -- to Hamish's quiet corner of the Highlands.
Its place in Hamish Macbeth
Death of a Scriptwriter is book 14 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It follows Death of a Dentist. It is followed by Death of an Addict. 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 9780892966448
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780446930024
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780446606981