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  • Death of a Scriptwriter

  • Hamish Macbeth, Book 14
  • By: M. C. Beaton
  • Narrated by: David Monteath
  • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (19 ratings)

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Patricia Martyn-Broyd, now in her seventies, has retired to the Highlands. She hasn't written a word in years and her books are out of print. But now a television company is about to film her last detective story, featuring the aristocratic Scottish detective Lady Harriet Vare.

Even better, a London publisher is bringing the book into print. Even though the snobbish Miss Martyn-Broyd doesn't care to mix with the locals she can't help but share her excitement with local policeman Hamish Macbeth.

Imagine her horror when Miss Martyn-Broyd discovers that Lady Harriet Vare is portrayed as a pot-smoking hippy, that the screenwriter is known for his violent and scurrilous scripts and that Lady Harriet is going to be played by the scene-stealing trollop Penelope Gates.

But a contract is a contract, Ms Martyn-Broyd quickly learns and when she is accused of murdering the scriptwriter and the leading lady, she turns to her one friend in Lochdubh, Hamish Macbeth, to help her.
©2013 M. C. Beaton (P)2013 Audible Ltd
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Another Hamish Macbeth classic.

Loved this story! Imaginative and thrilling tale of deception and ongoing disappointment in love for poor Hamish. The narrators Scottish accent makes these tales even more enjoyable.

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