After losing both his promotion & the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, PC Hamish Macbeth decides the best cure for a broken heart is a week's break at the charming coastal village of Skag. When he arrives at the ' Friendly House' B&B, however, he finds the atmosphere chilling, the food inedible & his fellow guests an unappealing lot. They include the annoying Miss Gunnery, a moaning family from London, & Bob Harris, who so nags his wife that everybody wants to kill him. & then somebody does. So Hamish must put aside both his holiday & his sore heart ...

A sudden outbreak of maliciousness strikes the town of Lochdubh in the form of a rash of poison pen letters.

Things turn

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A sudden outbreak of maliciousness strikes the town of Lochdubh in the form of a rash of poison pen letters. Things turn deadly when the local postmistress is found hanged in her room... with a vicious note beneath her dangling feet. Though his superiors call it suicide, PC Hamish Macbeth pronounces it murder. But Hamish is soon distracted by Jenny Ogilvie, a friend of his ex-fiancee, who arrives in Lochdubh to seduce him. & then he's ambushed by local reporter Elspeth Grant, who sets out to land the story
- & Hamish
- for herself. Caught in the middle of this volatile case, Hamish faces dangerous romances... & a blackhearted culprit wielding a mighty
- & lethal
- pen



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An incredible visual biography of the Manic Street Preachers from bassist & lyricist Nicky Wire. Nicky is the bass player & lyricist with the Manic Street Preachers. The group have released ten critically acclaimed albums over two decades, during which time they have won
- amongst others
- four Brits, an Ivor Novello, five Q awards, the Mojo Maverick award & the NME's coveted Godlike Genius Award.

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Books Detective Novels Detective Chief Inspector Blair seizes the perfect opportunity to try to get rid of Sergeant Hamish Macbeth when local police stations all over the Scottish Highlands are being threatened with closure... So Blair suggests that Cyril Sessions, a keen young police officer, goes to visit the town of Lochdubh to monitor exactly what Hamish does every day. But Hamish is fully prepared to ensure young Cyril returns back with a report under his arm. Before that happens, Cyril is found dead & Hamish has now become the prime suspect of his murder... Product Information: • ISBN: 9781472124654 • Author: M C Beaton • Publisher: Constable • Format: Paperback • Pages: 266 • Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2 cm ...

Beneath a waterfall on the Franklin, Aljaz Cosini, river guide, lies drowning. Beset by visions at once horrible & fabulous, he relives not just his own life but that of his family. In the waters that rush over him he sees those lives stripped of their surface realities, & finds a world where dreaming reasserts its power over thinking. ...

The " Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama & classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts & an equal mix of boy & girl parts. This modern tragedy concerns a salesman who, at the end of his life, is forced to face its futility & failure. ...

Author Patricia Martyn-Broyd, now in her seventies, has retired to the Highlands. She hasn't written a word in years & her books are out of print. But now a television company is about to film her last mystery, featuring the aristocratic Scottish detective Lady Harriet Vare. The snobbish Miss Martyn-Broyd doesn't care to mix with the locals but she can't help but share her excitement with local policeman Hamish Macbeth. Then, horrors! She finds that the screenwriter is known for his violent & scurrilous scripts & that Lady Harriet is to be portrayed as a pot-smoking hippy, played by the trollop Penelope Gates. When a nightmarish sequence of events results in murder, Miss Martyn-Broyd turns to her one friend in Lochdubh, Hamish Macbeth, to help her. ...

Murder in Paradise...

When Jane Wetherby offers PC Hamish Macbeth a holiday at her ' Happy Wanderer' health farm

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All Sergeant Hamish Macbeth ever wants is a quiet life in the tranquil surroundings of Lochdubh, his home village in the Scottish Highlands. Although the area he polices is vast, he’s happiest when he’s working alone, yet the police authorities insist he has an assistant. In the past, they have supplied a variety of problematic misfits, but they surpass themselves with their latest effort – an American named James Bl&. Having met Bland previously, when he was left in no doubt that the American led a life coloured by secrets & skulduggery, Hamish isn’t surprised when he discovers the real motive behind Bland’s police secondment involves him in helping track down a spy ring, some members of which have met grisly ends. That investigation tears Hamish away from Lochdubh at a time when the village is suffering a disturbing spate of increasingly violent burglaries. The identity of the burglar, however, is a perplexing mystery. All of that blows Hamish’s quiet life out the window & p... ...