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Minor writer John Heppel has a problem - he's by all accounts a consummate bore. When he's found dead in his cottage, there are plenty of suspects. But surely boredom shouldn't be cause for murder, or so thinks local bobby and sleuth Hamish Macbeth, whose investigation of Heppel's soap opera scri...

Occasionally the rugged landscape of Scotland attracts dreamers who move north, wrapped in fantasies of enjoying the simple life. They usually don't last, but it looks as if Effie Garrard has come to stay. When Constable Hamish Macbeth calls on her, he's amazed that she weathered the difficult wi...

The singers who have come to perform at the Flinwich Festival have large temperaments as well as large voices. To detect which of these exotic creatures has committed murder becomes the task of Superintendent Pryde of Scotland Yard.

Nina Cattermole had an unusual death: headbutted by a horse as she protested against the local hunt. The official verdict is that it was a freak accident. But for the Cattermoles it is merely the start of their troubles. On the day of the funeral a family friend, himself a hunt saboteur, is found...

Folk in the Highland village of Lochdubh believe that old Mrs Gentle is as sweet as she sounds. But local constable Hamish Macbeth is not convinced. When Mrs Gentle dies under mysterious circumstances Hamish finds he needs to get tough...

Backstage nerves are fraying, and revenge is on its way. As Causton Amateur Dramatic Society prepares for the opening night of Amadeus, in the wings Esslyn Carmichael suspects his wife is having an affair with the leading man. And where better to settle scores than the stage? Chief Inspector Tom ...

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth receives a report from a woman who has been brutally attacked and the criminal is on the loose. But upon further investigation, Hamish discovers that she was lying about the crime. Then she is found murdered...

When the townspeople of Lochdubh begin receiving poison-pen letters, no one takes them very seriously, even if they are full of wild accusations. But Hamish fears that they might lead to something deadly. His instincts prove correct when the town's postmistress is found hanging from a rope with a...

Local police stations all over the Scottish Highlands are being threatened with closure. This presents the perfect opportunity for Detective Chief Inspector Blair, who would love nothing more than to get rid of Sergeant Hamish Macbeth...

George Kendall is found dead. Six weeks later, another stockman turns up in the township and, as a first move, provokes the local sergeant to lock him up. This stockman is Detective-Inspector Napolean Bonaparte, and theres method in his seeming madness.