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