The author of detective series featuring Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin has died, aged 83. Marion Chesney Gibbons, who wrote under the pen name MC Beaton, was an international best-seller whose ...

When Hanover “Handy” Ebrington, the new owner of ramshackle Castle Drim, hears ghostly noises, Sgt. Hamish Macbeth investigates, in Beaton’s atmospheric 33rd mystery featuring the Lochdubh, Scotland, ...

At the start of Beaton's enjoyable 22nd Hamish Macbeth mystery (after \t\t 2006's Death of a Dreamer), the lovable \t\t Scottish constable stumbles over the body of a gossipy housecleaner, Mrs. Mavis ...

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Hamish Macbeth (1995) Season 1 is a charming Scottish mystery comedy TV series based on the novels by M.C. Beaton. It follows the laid-back and unconventional police constable, Hamish Macbeth, as he ...

Marion Chesney, who in midlife began writing novels and produced more than 150, including mystery series written under the pseudonym M.C. Beaton that featured the endearing crime solvers Agatha Raisin ...

The Hamish Macbeth books inspired a TV series in the 1990s and an adaptation of the Agatha Raisin stories is being filmed. KIDNAPPED by Robert Louis Stevenson; Penguin, £7.99 This really inspired me.

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