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Three books from the hugely successful MC Beaton Hamish Macbeth Murder Mystery series. - paperbacks, BRAND NEW, published by Constable UK
Death of a Policeman
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 and Hamish has now become the prime suspect of his murder...
Death of an Honest Man
Nobody loves an honest man, or that was what police sergeant Hamish Macbeth tried to tell newcomer Paul English. Paul attended church in Lochdubh.
He told the minister, Mr. Wellington, that his sermons were boring. He told tweedy Mrs. Wellington that she was too fat. Angela Brody was told her detective stories were pap for the masses and it was time she wrote literature instead. He accused Hamish of having dyed his fiery red hair.
He told Jessie Currie - who repeated all the last words of her twin sister - that she needed psychiatric help.
Death of a Ghost
There are many ruined castles in Scotland. One such lies outside the village of Drim.
Hamish begins to hear reports that this castle is haunted and lights have been seen there at night, but he assumes it's some children or maybe the local lads going there to smoke pot, or, worse, inject themselves with drugs.
Hamish says to his policeman, Charlie 'Clumsy' Carson, that they will both spend a night there. The keening wind explains the ghostly noises, but when Charlie falls through the floor, Hamish finds the body of a dead man propped up in a corner of the cellar.
After Charlie is airlifted to the hospital, Chief Detective Inspector Blair arrives to investigate the body, but there is none to be found.
Dismissed as a drunk making up stories, Hamish has to find and identify the body and its killer before the "ghost" can strike again.