Death of a Maid: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
by Beaton, M. C
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0892960108
- ISBN 13
- 9780892960101
- Seller
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Georgetown, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Mysterious Press. As New in Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover.Black boards and spine with title and author on spine in metallic green. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 245 pages. A Hamish Macbeth Mystery, No. 23. A DEATHLY MESSA housecleaner who damages more, items than she dusts, Mrs. Gillespie is a notorious snoop who spreads malicious gossip throughout the Highlands. After winning her cleaning services in a church raffle, Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth feels an ill wind coming. Sure enough, the mean-spirited maid is soon found bludgeoned to death with her own pail. Trying to clean up this big mess, Hamish faces a cluttered list of suspects, along with some jealous colleagues who are hindering his investigation. And when his ex-girlfriend arrives with her new paramour, Hamish is driven to foolish antics. But what should really preoccupy Macbeth are the town's hidden secrets -- ones that will force a killer to lash out in deadly, irrevocable acts... .
Synopsis
Mrs. Gillespie, the regions most famous maid, is violently struck down by a metal bucket. Knowing Mrs. Gillespies penchant for gossip, Hamish Macbeth is sure she delighted in finding out her clients secrets--which means that everyone whose home she cleaned is a suspect.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Storbeck's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 609613
- Title
- Death of a Maid: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
- Author
- Beaton, M. C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0892960108
- ISBN 13
- 9780892960101
- Publisher
- Mysterious Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- LCCN
- 2006018392
- Keywords
- FICTION, MYSTERY DETECTIVE, POLICE PROCEDURAL, TRADITIONAL BRITISH
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Mystery/Detective / Police Procedural;
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