Hamish Macbeth Murder Mysteries 12 Books Set, Books 1, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 24, 25,

by M.C. Beaton

M.C. Beaton Hamish Macbeth Murder Mystery Series Collection 12 Books Set includes titles in this collection :- Death of a Macho Man, Death of a Poison Pen, Death of a Scriptwriter, Death of a Nag, Death of a Bore, Death of a Dustman, Death of a Valentine, Death of a Witch, Death of a Travelling Man, Death of a Gossip, Death of a Charming Man, Death of a Dentist. Description:- Death of a Macho Man The unconventional Hamish Macbeth finds that his own impetuousness places him at the center of a murder investigation. Everyone in the Scottish Highlands village of Lochdubh called Randy Duggan 'the Macho Man'. Duggan went around the village and bragged about everything he had done and said he once was a wrestler in America and an explorer in the Middle East. Death of a Poison Pen 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. Death of a Scriptwriter Patricia Martyn-Broyd, now in her seventies, has retired to the Highlands. She hasn't written a word in years and her books are out of print. But now a television company is about to film her last detective story, featuring the aristocratic Scottish detective Lady Harriet Vare. Death of a Nag After a romantic disappointment and an undeserved demotion, Scots village bobby Hamish Macbeth decides a week's holiday at the coastal village of Skag might be just the ticket. Death of a Bore Not bored to death but murder most foul . . . Celebrated author John Heppel is known in Lochdubh as a self-important bore, prone to belittling the scribblings of the locals in his creative writing class. So when he's found dead, his mouth oozing ink, it seems a fitting fate.

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Marion Chesney Gibbons
aka: Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Marion Chesney, Charlotte Ward, Sarah Chester.

Marion Chesney was born on 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, and started her first job as a bookseller in charge of the fiction department in John Smith & Sons Ltd. While bookselling, by chance, she got an offer from the Scottish Daily Mail to review variety shows and quickly rose to be their theatre critic. She left Smith’s to join Scottish Field magazine as a secretary in the advertising department, without any shorthand or typing, but quickly got the job of fashion editor instead. She then moved to the Scottish Daily Express where she reported mostly on crime. This was followed by a move to Fleet Street to the Daily Express where she became chief woman reporter. After marrying Harry Scott Gibbons and having a son, Charles, Marion went to the United States where Harry had been offered the job of editor of the Oyster Bay Guardian. When that didn’t work out, they went to Virginia and Marion worked as a waitress in a greasy spoon on the Jefferson Davies in Alexandria while Harry washed the dishes. Both then got jobs on Rupert Murdoch’s new tabloid, The Star, and moved to New York.

Anxious to spend more time at home with her small son, Marion, urged by her husband, started to write historical romances in 1977. After she had written over 100 of them under her maiden name, Marion Chesney, and under the pseudonyms: Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Charlotte Ward, and Sarah Chester, she getting fed up with 1714 to 1910, she began to write detectives stories in 1985 under the pseudonym of M. C. Beaton. On a trip from the States to Sutherland on holiday, a course at a fishing school inspired the first Constable Hamish Macbeth story. They returned to Britain and bought a croft house and croft in Sutherland where Harry reared a flock of black sheep. But Charles was at school, in London so when he finished and both tired of the long commute to the north of Scotland, they moved to the Cotswolds where Agatha Raisin was created.

Reviews

[Gerry Welsch]

The unlikely plot of this Hamish McBeth adventure involves all the women of a nearby village, regardless of their age or marital status, making fools of themselves over a handsome young man who moves to their village. When this young man disappears in the middle of the night, Hamish becomes suspicious. Always fun to spend time with in the Scottish Highlands with Hamish Macbeth. We also find in this book the reason why his engagement to Priscilla ended.

[Anne Tanner]

I still love Hamish Macbeth books. I only read Death of a Dustman, not all of these. I love the quirky Highlander element of this series, making and breaking rules with an underlying sense of what is human and right. A great comfort read, almost regardless of the violence involved.

[Judy]

Death Of A Valentine this time