Death of a Scriptwriter

Death of a Gossip

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
Length: 4 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No

When society widow and gossip columnist Lady Jane Winters joined the fishing class, she wasted no time in ruffling the feathers—or was it the fins?—of those around her. Among the victims of her sharp tongue and unladylike manner was Lochdubh Constable Hamish Macbeth. Yet not even Hamish thought someone would permanently silence Lady Jane’s... Read more »

Death of a Gossip & Death of a Cad

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No

Death of a Gossip

When society widow and gossip columnist Lady Jane Winters joined the fishing class, she wasted no time in ruffling the feathers—or was it the fins?—of those around her. Among the victims of her sharp tongue and unladylike manner was Lochdubh Constable Hamish Macbeth. Yet not even Hamish thought someone would permanently silence... Read more »

Death of a Cad

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No

When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiance home to Lochdubh, everybody in town is delighted ... except for love-smitten Constable Hamish Macbeth. Yet his affairs of the heart will have to wait. Vile, boorish Captain Bartlett, one of the guests at Priscilla's engagement party, has just been found murdered-shot while on a... Read more »

Death of an Outsider

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Length: 4 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No

The third book in themuch-loved Hamish Macbeth series from the author of the bestselling AgathaRaisin series

The most hated man in the most dour town in Scotland issleeping with the fishes, or—more accurately—has been dumped into a tank filledwith crustaceans. All that remains of the murdered victim are his bones. Butonce the lobsters have been... Read more »

Death of a Perfect Wife

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No

Hamish Macbeth, the laid-back constable of Lochdubh,Scotland, has a new Land Rover to drive and a Highland summer to savor, but asfast as rain rolls in from the loch, his happy life goes to hell in ahandbasket.

The trouble begins when his beloved Priscilla Halburton-Smythereturns from London—with a fiancé on her arm. His miseries multiply when... Read more »

Death of a Hussy

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No

A classic title from M. C. Beaton’s New York Times bestselling Hamish Macbeth series

About the best that can be said of wealthy Maggie Baird isthat inside her middle-aged body, there still beats the heart of a beautifultart. So when her car catches fire with Maggie in it, there are five likelysuspects right on the premises of her luxurious... Read more »

Death of a Snob

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No

A classic title from M. C. Beaton’s New York Times bestselling Hamish Macbeth series

Believing that someone is trying to murder her, gorgeousJane Wetherby asks Hamish Macbeth to spend Christmas with her and an exclusivegroup of friends at her Scottish island health farm. With a cold in his headand no place to go for the holidays, Hamish accepts... Read more »

Death of a Prankster

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Length: 4 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No

A classic title from M.C. Beaton’s New York Times bestselling Hamish Macbeth series about the death ofa practical joker.

Admittedly, there’s a touch of black humor in the case.Rich, old practical joker Andrew Trent summons his kin to the remote Arrat House inthe dead of winter for a deathbed farewell. They arrive to find him in perfecthealth and... Read more »

Death of a Greedy Woman

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Length: 4 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No

A classic title from M. C. Beaton’s New York Times bestselling Hamish Macbeth series

Peta Gore is the bane of her friend’s otherwise successfullife. Maria Worth has come to hate her old friend—a noisy, vulgar glutton.There is no other way to describe Peta. She doesn’t just “have a good appetite”—shesucks and chomps and chews with relish. Not only... Read more »

Death of a Traveling Man

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Length: 4 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No

Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth’s life is going to pot. Hehas—horrors!—been promoted, his new boss is a dunce, and a self-proclaimedtraveler named Sean and his girlfriend have parked their rusty eyesore of a vanin the middle of the village. Hamish smells trouble, and he’s right, as usual.The doctor’s drugs go missing. Money vanishes. Neighbors... Read more »

Death of a Charming Man

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No

M. C. Beaton returns with another baffling case for Hamish Macbeth, the stubborn, red-haired, one-man police department of the Highland village of Lochdubh.

Hamish Macbeth’s unofficial engagement to the stunningly beautiful Priscilla Halburton-Smythe is reminding the constable of the old adage about answered prayers. His lovely fiancée has... Read more »

Death of a Nag

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No

Hamish Macbeth, constable in the small Scottish Highland town of Lochdubh, is feeling down after losing both his promotion and his girlfriend, the town beauty, Priscilla Halbourton-Smythe. A trip to a charming seaside inn with his dog Towser is meant to raise his sagging spirits. Instead, he arrives at “Friendly House” to find the ambiance... Read more »

Death of a Macho Man

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No

If you haven’t already fallen in love with this internationally acclaimed series by M. C. Beaton, then this cunningly crafted mystery will do the trick. Loaded with authentic Scots dialog vivid enough to make you smell the heather-scented air, Death of a Macho Man is Beaton at her best.

Hamish Macbeth—Lochdubh’s one-man police force—has suddenly... Read more »

Death of a Dentist

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No

In Scotland, where thrift and a “nice set of dentures” are generally admired, dental surgeon Dr. Frederick Gilchrist’s cheap rates and penchant for pulling teeth have gained him a clientele.

However, wiser Highlanders (like Hamish Macbeth) opt to steer clear of this reputed womanizer’s all-too-busy hands. A blinding toothache sends Hamish Macbeth... Read more »

Death of a Scriptwriter

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No

With the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe away in London, Hamish Macbeth, the constable of the small Scottish town of Lochdubh, 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... Read more »

Death of an Addict

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No

With their engaging plots, mellow Scottish ambiance, and droll humor, the Hamish Macbeth mysteries always provide readers a bonnie time. The charming antics of their hopelessly unambitious and love-crossed hero have earned the series a dedicated following. Death of an Addict continues the Hamish Macbeth tradition of superb entertainment, with... Read more »

Death of a Dustman

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No

When Fergus Macleod, Lochdubh’s abusive, drunk dustman is put in charge of the local recycling center, Hamish Macbeth smells trouble. Sure enough, Fergus, imbued with his new powers, becomes a bullying tyrant. When his body is found stuffed in a recycling bin, no one is sorry—including his long-suffering family. But Macbeth is surprised to find... Read more »

Death of a Celebrity

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No

Lochdubh, a remote village reached only by a one-track lane, nestles serenelyamid Scotland’s hills … until well-known TV reporter Crystal French races intotown in her bright BMW. And Constable Hamish Macbeth, dourly wed to dutyinstead of the fiancée who dumped him, promptly gives her a summons forreckless driving. Outraged, Crystal makes... Read more »

Death of a Village

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Length: 5 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No

The aromas of wild thyme and Highland heather waft through Lochdubh, home to M. C. Beaton’s eccentric policeman, Hamish Macbeth. Yet what the irascible constable smells in his latest case is the acrid scent of fear as an entire town is entrapped in something dark and deadly.Yet, as he deftly investigates the summer’s high crimes and... Read more »

Death of a Poison Pen

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No

When the townspeople of Lochdubh begin receiving poison-penletters, no one takes them very seriously, even if they are full of wild accusations.But Hamish Macbeth fears that they might lead to something deadly.

His instincts provecorrect when the town’s postmistress is found hanging from a rope with a poison-pen letter at her feet. Though it... Read more »

Death of a Bore

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No

When John Heppel, a visiting writer to Lochdubh, first proposes forming a writers’ circle, the idea is met with much enthusiasm from local residents. However, once the classes get underway, attendance quickly falters due to one undeniable fact: John Heppel is a long-winded, consummate bore. But is dullness a motive for murder? Hamish Macbeth... Read more »

Death of a Dreamer

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No

Occasionally, the rugged landscape of Scotland attracts dreamers who move north, wrapped in fantasies of enjoying the simple life. They usually don’t last, defeated by the climate or by inhospitable locals. But it looks as if Effie Garrand has come to stay.

When local constable Hamish Macbeth calls on her, he is amazed to find the small woman... Read more »

Death of a Maid

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No

Mrs. Gillespie is famous for being the best maid in the northwest of Sutherland. But to Hamish Macbeth, she is a malicious gossip who bangs around the furniture and clanks pots. When Hamish wins Mrs. Gillespie’s services in a church raffle, he spends most of the day trying to avoid her. He doesn’t understand how she managed to gain such a fine... Read more »

Death of a Gentle Lady

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No

Gentle by name, gentle by nature. Everyone in the sleepy Scottish town of Lochdubh adores elderly Mrs. Gentle—everyone but Hamish Macbeth, that is. Hamish thinks the gentle lady is quite sly and vicious, and the citizens of Lochdubh think he is overly cranky. Perhaps it’s time for him to get married, they say. But who has time for marriage when... Read more »

Death of a Witch

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No

Returning from a disappointing foreign holiday, police constable Hamish Macbeth is worried. He learns that a newcomer, Catriona Beldame, is regarded as a witch and that various men have been seen visiting her. Hamish himself is charmed by her until he finds out that she has been supplying dangerous potions. At first the villagers won’t listen to... Read more »

Death of a Valentine

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No

Amazing news has spread across the Scottish countryside. The most famous of highland bachelors, police sergeant Hamish Macbeth, will be married at last. Everyone in the village of Lochdubh adores Josie McSween, Macbeth’s newest constable and blushing bride-to-be.

While locals think Josie is quite a catch, Hamish has a case of prenuptial jitters.... Read more »

Death of a Chimney Sweep

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No

In the isolated villages in the north of Scotland, the villagers rely on the services of the chimney sweep, Pete Ray, and his old-fashioned brushes. Pete is always able to find work in the Scottish highlands—until the day that Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices blood dripping onto the floor of a villager’s fireplace and a dead body stuffed... Read more »

Death of a Kingfisher

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No

When Scotland is hit by recession, police constable Hamish Macbeth notices that the Highland people are forced to come up with inventive ways to lure tourists to their sleepy towns. The quaint village of Braikie doesn't have much to offer, other than a place of rare beauty called Buchan's Wood, which was bequeathed to the town. The savvy local... Read more »

A Highland Christmas

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No

In the dark, wintry highlands of Lochdubh, Scotland, where the local Calvinist element resists the secular trimmings of Christmas, the spirit of old Saint Nick is about as welcome as a flat tire on a deserted road. Nor is crime taking a holiday, as Constable Hamish Macbeth soon finds himself protecting an unhappy girl, unlocking the secrets of a... Read more »