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"When beautiful Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings home her fiance, a famous playwright, all of Lochdubh clamors to meet the London celebrity except for her long-time friend Hamish. But the fiancee is pushed aside when one of the guests, a widely-hated hunter, is found shot to death. Everyone is quic...

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Main Author: Beaton, M. C.
Other Authors: Porter, Davina (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: Rothley, Leics. [England] : Prince Frederick, Md. : Clipper Audio/W.F. Howes Ltd. ; [Distributed by] Recorded Books, p1999.
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Macbeth, Hamish > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Police > Scotland > Highlands > Fiction.
Mystery fiction. > Scotland
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Summary:"When beautiful Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings home her fiance, a famous playwright, all of Lochdubh clamors to meet the London celebrity except for her long-time friend Hamish. But the fiancee is pushed aside when one of the guests, a widely-hated hunter, is found shot to death. Everyone is quick to point out it could only be a tragic accident, but Hamish suspects otherwise." -- Container.
Item Description:"A Hamish Macbeth mystery."--Container.
Unabridged.
Physical Description:5 sound discs (ca. 6 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Issued also on cassette.
Format:Compact discs.
ISBN:0788744798
9780788744792
Author Notes:M. C. Beaton's real name is Marion Chesney. She was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1936. She has written over a hundred books under her own name and other pseudonyms: Ann Fairfax, Helen Crampton, Jennie Tremaine, Charlotte Ward, and Sarah Chester. She started her writing career while working as a fiction buyer for a bookstore in Glasgow.

Working at one time or another as a theater critic, newspaper reporter, and editor, she used her British background to write a series of regency romances set in England and Scotland. Some of her regency romances include The Folly, Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue, and Regency Gold. In 1986, she was awarded the Romantic Times Award for Outstanding Regency Series Writer.

She has also written two mystery series under the pseudonym M. C. Beaton: The Hamish Macbeth Series, which became the inspiration for a television show in England, and The Agatha Raisin Series, about a retired advertising executive. Her title His and Hers made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012.

Marion Chesney passed away on December 31, 2019 at the age of 83.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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