Death of a Glutton
There's not a cloud in Constable Hamish Macbeth's sky....Just plenty of warm sunshine and not quite enough of beautiful Priscilla Halburton-Smythe.But as eight hopeful members of the Checkmate Singles Club converge on Tommel Castle Hotel for a week of serious matchmaking, the clouds roll in. ...
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There's not a cloud in Constable Hamish Macbeth's sky....Just plenty of warm sunshine and not quite enough of beautiful Priscilla Halburton-Smythe.But as eight hopeful members of the Checkmate Singles Club converge on Tommel Castle Hotel for a week of serious matchmaking, the clouds roll in.
The four couples, carefully matched by dating director Maria Worth, immediately dislike each other. The arrival of Maria's gross, greedy partner, Peta, kills the last vestige of romance.And as love goes out the window, murder comes in the door.
Peta soon slurps up her last meal, and Hamish is left with a baffling puzzle: who shared the fateful outing that left Peta dead with a big red apple in her mouth? Surely not one of those singles....
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780804112123 (0804112126)
Publish date: 1995
Publisher: Ivy Books
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Series: Hamish Macbeth (#8)
Series: Hamish Macbeth #8 I think the original title for this book, "Death of a Glutton", was better. Cat lovers may want to steer clear of this one, and I have to agree with the character that said that Macbeth's way of getting a confession was amateurish.
Standard fare for the Hamish MacBeth series but always enjoyable.
Think Hamish is growing on me. This is definitely better than the last two of the series I read. The stories are very slow in developing and there isn't too much depth to the characters, but perhaps the more of them you read the more you seen in the repetitive characters. I still prefer the televisi...
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