The eponymous nosy parker in Death of a Busybody is Miss Ethel Tither She has made herself deeply unpopular in the quintessentially English village of Hilary Magna since she goes out of her way to snoop on people & interfere with their lives On being introduced to her the seasoned reader of detective stories will spot a murder victim in the making Sure enough by the end of chapter one this unpleasant lady has met an extremely unpleasant fate She is found floating in a cesspool having been bludgeoned prior to drowning in the drainage water This is in every way a murky business; realising that they are out of their depth the local police quickly call in the Yard Inspector Thomas Littlejohn George Bellairs' series detective arrives on the train & in casting around for suspects he finds that he is spoiled for choice The amiable vicar supplies him with a map showing the scene of the crime; maps were a popular feature of traditional whodunnits for many years & Bellairs occasionally included them in his books as he does here ...

She couldn't paint to save her life
- so someone's given her a lesson by taking it! Most newcomers don't stay long in remote Lochdubh
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When Fergus Macleod Lochdubh's abusive drunk dustman is put in charge of the local recycling centre & is dubbed the ' Environment Officer' Hamish Macbeth smells trouble Sure enough Fergus imbued with his new powers becomes a bullying tyrant & when his body is found stuffed in a recycling bin no one is sorry
- including his long-suffering family But Macbeth is surprised to find that many of the despicable dustman's victims refuse to talk
- & when violence strikes again the lanky lawman must quickly unearth the culprit among a litter of suspects before the killer makes a clean getaway!

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Determined to prove there is life after death a paranormal investigator visits a house where a family was gruesomely murdered 20 years after the Mastersons were slaughtered in their own house renowned &ghost hunter& Carter Simms (Patti Tindall) is offered a fee to investigate Masterson House&s ghostly apparitions With the help of a reporter a cameraman & a spiritual advocate Simms begins a three-night ordeal that will change her life forever ...

Her table manners were a crime But she didn&t deserve to die! There&s not a cloud in Hamish Macbeth&s sky
- just plenty of warm
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One of the great World War I antiwar novels
- honest chilling & brilliantly satirical Based on the author's experiences on the
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A tart with a heart of stone Maggie Baird is neither kind or generous but she is very very rich So when her car catches fire with her inside it there are five likely candidates for the role of murderer All five had been houseguests at her luxurious Highlands home
- Maggie&s timid niece & four former lovers one of whom Maggie had intended to pick for a husband All five are utterly broke & all had ample opportunity to tamper with Maggie&s car So finding out who did it will require all of PC Hamish Macbeth&s extraordinary common sense & insight into human nature; especially when the killer appears to be the wrong person entirely
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Amazing news is spreading like wildfire across the Scottish countryside the most famous of all Highland bachelors police sergeant Hamish Macbeth is planning to marry at last! Everyone in the village of Lochdubh adores Josie Mc Sween Hamish's newest constable & blushing bride-to-be While locals think she is quite a catch Hamish has a severe case of pre-nuptial jitters after all if it wasn't for the recent murder of a beautiful woman in a neighbouring village there wouldn't be a wedding in the first place For it was a mysterious Valentine's Day card
- delivered to the victim before her death
- which initially drew Hamish & Josie together in the investigation & now as they work side by side they soon discover that the woman's list of admirers was endless
- confirming Hamish's suspicion that love can be deaf blind & deadly!


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For the fortieth anniversary of its publication in May 2006 Faber are reissuing Seamus Heaney's classic first collection Death of a Naturalist which on its appearance in 1966 won the Cholmondeley Award the EC Gregory Award the Somerset Maugham Award & the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize' His words give us the soil-reek of Ireland the colourful violence of his childhood on a farm in Derry The full-blooded energy of these poems makes Death of a Naturalist the best first book of poems I've read for some time'
- CB Cox in the Spectator ' The power & precision of his best poems are a delight & as a first collection Death of a Naturalist is outstanding His subject is those things which are inherent or inherited What he praises is to be praised in his own work'
- Christopher Ricks New Statesman' Now to pry into roots to finger slime To stare big-eyed Narcissus into some spring Is beneath all adult dignity I rhyme To see myself to set the darkness echoing'

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James Harrison has recently moved to a restored hunting lodge in Sutherland with his gorgeous private nurse Gloria Dainty When Hamish visits Mr Harrison to welcome him to the neighborhood the old man treats him very rudely Gloria apologises for her employer's behavior & Hamish takes the plunge & invites her out for dinner On the appointed evening Hamish waits for Gloria at the restaurant & waits But Gloria never shows up Four days later Gloria's body washes up on the beach near Braikie She's been strangled Now without a date & without his former policeman Dick Fraser
- who left the force to buy a bakery
- Hamish must find out who killed the beautiful new resident of Sutherland & why before the murderer strikes again

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