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Death of a Scriptwriter

From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...DEATH OF A SCRIPTWRITER: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery HOLLYWOOD IN THE HIGHLANDS

With the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe away in London, Lochdubh Constable Hamish Macbeth pines for company during the long Scottish winter. He gets his wish — and more — when a troupe of flashy, urbane filmmakers clamors into the nearby town of Drim. Before long bedlam erupts around their make-believe mystery ...and culminates in the sudden appearance of one very real corpse.

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. 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. And as the culprit strikes again, Hamish must quickly find the right killer — or script the wrong finale to a show gone murderously awry.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 198
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780446606981
  • Characters
  • Jimmy Anderson, Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, Chief Inspector Blair, Hamish Macbeth
  • Settings
  • Sutherland, Scotland
  • Genres
  • mystery, fiction, crime, scotland, audiobook, detective
  • Release date
  • 1999