Hamish Macbeth · Book 37
Death of a Smuggler
- Published
- 1 January 2025
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN-13
- 9781538771112
- Type
- novel
About this book
R. W. Green carried the series forward from Beaton, who created it, with Death of a Smuggler (2025), the thirty-seventh book, continuing the Lochdubh mysteries into a fifth decade.
Its place in Hamish Macbeth
Death of a Smuggler is book 37 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It follows Death of a Spy. It is followed by Death of a Groom. 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 9781538771112
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781538743331