Hamish Macbeth · Book 15
Death of an Addict
- Published
- 1 January 1999
- Pages
- 228
- ISBN-13
- 9780446608282
- Type
- novel
About this book
M. C. Beaton's Death of an Addict (1999) is the fifteenth book, continuing a series that by this point had settled into its comic, character-driven rhythm without losing the real stakes of its crimes.
Its place in Hamish Macbeth
Death of an Addict is book 15 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It follows Death of a Scriptwriter. It is followed by Death of a Dustman. 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 9780892966752
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780446608282
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780759561885