Hamish Macbeth · Book 3
Death of an Outsider
- Published
- 1 January 1988
- Pages
- 200
- ISBN-13
- 9780754031369
- Type
- novel
About this book
Death of an Outsider (1988) is the third entry at 200 pages, following Death of a Cad and preceding Death of a Perfect Wife, with Hamish once again solving a murder that his prickly superiors would rather he stayed out of.
Its place in Hamish Macbeth
Death of an Outsider is book 3 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It follows Death of a Cad. It is followed by Death of a Perfect Wife. 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 9780754031369
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780553407938
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780312021887