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In the dark, wintry highlands of Lochdubh, Scotland, where the local Calvinist element resists the secular trimmings of Christmas, the spirit of old Saint Nick is about as welcome as a flat tire on a deserted road. Nor is crime taking a holiday, as Constable Hamish Macbeth soon finds himself protecting an unhappy girl, unlocking the secrets of a frightened old woman, and retrieving some stolen holiday goods. Now the lanky lawman must use all his Highland...
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Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 2
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When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiance home to Lochdubh, everybody in town is delighted... except for love-smitten Constable Hamish Macbeth. Yet his affairs of the heart will have to wait. Vile, boorish Captain Bartlett, one of the guests at Priscilla's engagement party, has just been found murdered-shot while on a grouse hunt. Now with many titled party guests as the prime suspects, each with a reason for snuffing out...
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Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 16
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Scottish sleuth Hamish Macbeth investigates the murder of Fergus Macleod, the irascible, tyrannical head of Lochdubh's new recycling center, while coping with the bizarre edicts of Freda Fleming, a member of the Strathbane Council, his lazy new constable, and increasing labor unrest at the new oceanfront hotel.
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Constable Hamish Macbeth is goaded into accepting a challenge to fight a loud-mouthed newcomer to Lochdubh known as the Macho Man, but before the bout can take place, the bully is murdered, placing Macbeth in an uncomfortable situation and putting his beloved job in jeopardy.
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Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 28
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Grand Central Pub
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2013.
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English
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Sergeant Hamish Macbeth pays no mind to a bothersome woman who went out drinking and forgot all the events of the previous evening, until she turns up murdered.
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Grand Central Publishing
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In a Scottish seaside resort, policeman Hamish MacBeth, is having a depressing holiday. The food is dreadful and the man in the adjoining room won't stop nagging his wife. Things liven up, however, when strolling on the beach MacBeth discovers the husband's body floating in the water.
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Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 4
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When Paul and Trixie Thomas, an unemployed English couple, move to Lochdubh, the villagers are wary of them--and when Trixie is found dead, village police inspector Hamish MacBeth suspects her husband from the very start.
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2012
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When Scotland is hit by recession, police constable Hamish Macbeth notices that the Highland people are forced to come up with inventive ways to lure tourists to their sleepy towns. The quaint village of Braikie doesn't have much to offer, other than a place of rare beauty called Buchan's Wood, which was bequeathed to the town. The savvy local tourist director renames the woods "The Fairy Glen," and has brochures printed with a beautiful photograph
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Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 1
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Scottish highland village cop Hamish Macbeth must find which target was provoked enough to strangle and drown nasty fat widowed tabloid reporter Jane Winters, who revealed many others' guilty secrets.Much is from the viewpoint of a naive secretary seduced by a blue-blood playboy. Icy blond beauty, aristocratic Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, lends a hand.
11) Death of a Hussy
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Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 5
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English
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Maggie Baird and the Scottish town of Lochdubh organize a crime wave in order to get Police Constable Hamish Macbeth to return, and they are successful, but Maggie winds up dead when her car catches fire, leaving five suspects; four suitors and her niece.
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Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 7
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English
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Called on to investigate the death of wealthy baby food magnate and perennial prankster Arthur Trent, Hamish Macbeth finds himself faced with a list of suspects that includes Trent's greedy relations.
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Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 15
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Grand Central Pub
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[2001]
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English
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British detective Hamish Macbeth travels to Amsterdam and poses as a spiffy drug dealer to find clues to a murder. The victim was a recovering drug addict in Macbeth's village in Scotland.
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Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 35
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English
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Kate Hibbert is all too eager to lend a hand to her neighbors. Although she has been a resident of the sleepy village of Lochdubh for only a year, in that time Kate has alienated one too many of its residents with her interfering-and not entirely well-intentioned-ways. When Kate's neighbor sees her lugging a heavy suitcase to the bus stop, he hopes that the prying woman is gone for good. But two weeks later, Kate's cousin arrives in town with the...
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Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 8
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The arrival of a gluttonous woman at the Tommel Castle Hotel in the Scottish Highlands has the hotel's staff and guests thoroughly disgusted, especially when the woman is later found murdered.
16) Death of a snob
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Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 6
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English
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With a cold in his head and no place to go for Christmas, Hamish snaps up the invitation of drop-dead gorgeous Jane Wetherby to spend the holiday at her Scottish island health farm--and figure out who is trying to kill her.
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Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 26
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Grand Central Pub
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2012
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English
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In the isolated villages of northern Scotland, the residents rely on chimney sweep Pete Ray. After Police Constable Hamish Macbeth finds a dead body stuffed inside a chimney, the entire town of Lochdubh suspects Pete. Then Pete's body is found on the Scottish moors, and the mystery deepens.
18) Death of a liar
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Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 30
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English
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Sergeant Hamish Macbeth investigates the murder of a woman in the small village of Cronish in the Scottish Highlands who had lied about being brutally attacked.
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Murder on the Telly Lochdubh, a remote village reached only by a one-track lane, nestles serenely amid Scotland's hills ... until well-known TV reporter Crystal French races into town in her bright BMW. And Constable Hamish Macbeth, dourly wed to duty instead of the fiancee who dumped him, promptly gives her a summons for reckless driving. Outraged, Crystal makes Macbeth's life a misery with a TV report on policing in the Highlands. When she also...
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Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 19
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A sudden plague of maliciousness strikes the beautiful Highland 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 an obvious suicide, Constable Hamish Macbeth pronounces it a murder-and sets off a media circus. But Hamish is soon distracted by Jenny Ogilvie, a friend of his ex-fiancée,...
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