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Death of an Honest Man
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Sergeant Hamish Macbeth - Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman - returns in M.C. Beaton's new mystery in her New York Times best-selling series.
Nobody loves an honest man, or that was what police sergeant Hamish Macbeth tried to tell newcomer Paul English. Paul had moved to a house in Cnothan, a sour village on Hamish's beat.
He 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 and in these days of increasing obesity it was her duty to show a good example. 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.
"I speak as I find," he bragged. Voices saying, "I could kill that man," could be heard from Lochdubh to Cnothan.
And someone did.
Now Hamish is faced with a bewildering array of suspects. And he's lost the services of his clumsy policeman, Charlie, who has resigned from the force after Chief Inspector Blair berated Charlie one too many times, and the policeman threw Blair into the loch. Can Hamish find the killer on his own?
What the critics say
"Macbeth is the sort of character who slyly grows on you." (Chicago Sun-Times)
"Longing for escape? Tired of waiting for Brigadoon to materialize? Time for a trip to Lochdubh, the scenic, if somnolent, village in the Scottish Highlands where M. C. Beaton sets her beguiling whodunits featuring Constable Hamish Macbeth." (New York Times Book Review)
"With residents and a constable so authentic, it won't be long before tourists will be seeking Lochdubh and believing in the reality of Hamish Macbeth as surely as they believed in Sherlock Holmes." (Denver Rocky Mountain News)
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- hanne
- 2018-11-18
Wonderful story
I don't want to provide spoilers, but this is one of the best Hamish Macbeth stories with a very happy ending. The story itself is typical, with many twists and turns, some more farfetched than others. Definitely need to suspend one's sense of disbelief, but then these stories are not meant to be hard boiled police procedurals. Graeme Malcolm is the best narrator to make Lochdubh and its inhabitants come to life. I highly recommend this recording.
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