![]() ![]() Therefore, it comes as no surprise when he is murdered. Under the guise of “honesty,” English felt entitled to hurl the most hurtful insults to everyone in his path. In Death of an Honest Man (2018), Paul English, a retired banker comes to Lochdubh to escape the world of commerce and might have done had he not been a verbally abusive and thoroughly unpleasant man. The Highlands of Scotland have a romantic appeal to prospective retirees, but Hamish asserts that one Highland winter usually sends them scurrying back down South. They suspect smuggling is at the root of it all but there is much more… The castle belongs to a retired Superintendent of Police Hanover, but “Handy,” as he likes to be called, is not your typical blustering bureaucrat and even Hamish and Charlie hear the ghostly voices. With Charlie safely ensconced in a tiny basement apartment at the Haliburton’s Tommel Castle, Hamish and Charlie can begin an investigation into the ghostly voices heard at another small castle currently undergoing refurbishment. His current constable is the appallingly clumsy Charlie Carter-death to the movables and comestibles at the police station, Hamish’s home. He does extricate himself, of course, with ill feelings all around. The plot of Death of a Ghost (2017) begins with Hamish trying to untangle himself from a romantic involvement with a Police forensics expert-she was much too aggressive in her wish to rehabilitate him into a more ambitious, status hungry officer. As the plot develops, who Gloria is and what she intends becomes increasingly clear and the consequences of these intentions are dire indeed. That Gloria is stereotypical of a honey trap never occurs to Hamish or to any of the other local men charmed by what she seems to be. She is the private nurse to a new resident in the Lochdubh area, James Harrison, a cantankerous, manipulative invalid. Hamish, dazzled by the “sexy nurse” persona of Gloria Dainty does not stop to consider she is too naughty/nice to be true. Too often, what we see is not what we get.Ī case in point is Death of a Nurse (2016). Never mind that he went by appearance primarily when drawn to any of his women since this is a common romantic blunder. Not a romantic bone in his body for another and Hamish was so wistful about his romantic failings. He was so very not Hamish: too much hard-bitten Glaswegian energy for one thing, which is rather more like Inspector Blair really. In addition, while Robert Carlyle is an admirable actor in many ways, he could not counterfeit Hamish’s hapless feyness and chronic lack of ambition. The characters and plots are unrecognizable as Beaton creations. ![]() Death of a Love (2020), the soon to be published and last Macbeth novel, concludes his adventures-unless the mantle settles on another writer.īest forget the three season televised series Hamish Macbeth except to see the Highlands and hear the accents. However, the fact of her death is especially jarring for me because I will sorely miss seeing what she can come up with next for Hamish. It is consoling to think about and appreciate just how prolific an author she was, writing in several genres under various pseudonyms. Surely it is because Hamish is my favorite of her characters in her more than 160 books although there have been many characters and books from which to choose. I have only begun to process these feelings by actually writing an article about her and the last Hamish Macbeth books written as M.C. I have been saddened at the passing of Marion Chesney Gibbon. And as the culprit strikes again, Hamish must quickly find the right killer - or script the wrong finale to a show gone murderously awry.You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance. Yet, going behind the scenes, Hamish soon finds a town full of locals bitten by the movie bug and a cast of quarreling show business types, all harboring their own secrets, lies, and hidden agendas. The initial suspect in the killing is one Patricia Martyn-Broyd, the aging mystery writer furious that her musty old cozies are getting a risque face-lift in their TV reincarnation. and culminates in the sudden appearance of one very real corpse. Before long bedlam erupts around their make-believe mystery. He gets his wish - and more - when a troupe of flashy, urbane filmmakers clamors into the nearby town of Drim. With the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe away in London, Lochdubh Constable Hamish Macbeth pines for company during the long Scottish winter. DEATH OF A SCRIPTWRITER: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery HOLLYWOOD IN THE HIGHLANDS From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series. ![]()
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