Death of a Dustman a Hamish (Gemstar) Macbeth Mystery [Import] [Hardcover]

M. C. Beaton (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Oxmoor House (March 2001)
• ISBN-10: 0759501866
• ISBN-13: 978-0759501867
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)

More About the Author

M.C. BEATON has won international acclaim for her bestselling Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin mysteries. She is also the author of over 100 romance titles and a series of romantic suspense, The Edwardian Mystery Series. M. C. Beaton lives in a Cotswold cottage with her husband.

Marion is active on Facebook using her most popular pen name, M.C. Beaton. You can find complete book lists, information on events, and sign up for news updates at her website, www.MCBeaton.com.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Have three hours to kill...this is your book!, March 13, 2001

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D. Kaplan "sleuth029" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Death of a Dustman (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, No. 17) (Hardcover)

Having just read a heart-thumping page-turning thriller, I felt the need to read something that would bring my blood pressure back to its normal rate. "Death of a Dustman," the most recent installment in M. C. Beaton's series about Hamish Macbeth, a police officer in a small village in the Scottish Highlands, was the perfect choice.

This book has just the right mix of suspects, clues, romance and local color to keep you interested while not taxing your heart. Don't expect deep character analyses, complicated plots or dastardly villians. The darkest thing about this book is probably the weather.

I have to give the book 5 stars because it delivered exactly what I expected...about three hours of non-stressful pure reading enjoyment.

This is the perfect book to tuck into your beach bag or carry on luggage.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars DEATH OF A DUSTMAN WILL GATHER NO DUST!!!, January 10, 2002

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Mac Blair "Mac Blair" (Huntingdon, TN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Death of a Dustman (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, No. 17) (Mass Market Paperback)

You won't be able to put the book down is the reason it will gather no dust. I really enjoyed this one. I have read them all up to now and am looking forward to the next one. Hamish is quite a character. He is trying to find out who killed the dustman and another murder takes place. Did the same person do both??? Hamish wades through the various people of his village asking questions and putting his thoughts together. He has a new assistant in this one but will he keep him and is the assistant someone who could have committed the murders? His true love Priscilla is around and pretty as ever. Of course Inspector Blair is always causing trouble for Hamish. A good book, you can feel like you are there. You can see the village in your mind and if you are like me, wish it were possible to live in a place like this.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Charms, Secrets and Nasty Grudges, April 15, 2002

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Mamalinde "mamalinde" (Dallas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Death of a Dustman (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, No. 17) (Hardcover)

Isn't it fun to imagine that somewhere across the pond, lurks a lady who can churn out books one after another, in the same basic formula, but each a uniquely clever and original read? And she probably wanders about and no one knows of the mischief, mayhem and murder lurking behind the eyes of the deceptively normal lady? Once again, Ms. Beaton takes us along to meet the ever unambitious Hamish as he casts about the idyllic village of Lochdubh in the farthest northern part of the Scottish highlands. Where the people have their charms, secrets and nasty grudges, and there is almost always trouble simmering. To the usual wonderful cast of characters, the faithful reader meets Hamish's new constable Clary the Cook, the frightful Freda Fleming, Officer of the Environment, Lugs the Dog, a rich Greek reopening the Lochdubh hotel, as well as the Fergus McLeod and family. Ms. Beaton beautifully communicates a sense of place, a cadence of language and a refreshingly original formula cozy.