Hamish Macbeth · Book 6
Death of a Snob
- Published
- 1 January 1991
- Pages
- 171
- ISBN-13
- 9780754039426
- Type
- novel
About this book
The sixth book, Death of a Snob (1991), runs 171 pages and carries the series' dry Highland humor forward between Death of a Hussy and Death of a Prankster, with Lochdubh's small-town nosiness doing most of the detective work.
Its place in Hamish Macbeth
Death of a Snob is book 6 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It follows Death of a Hussy. It is followed by Death of a Prankster. 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 9780754039426
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780783887555
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