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Death of a cad : [a Hamish Macbeth mystery]

When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiance home to Lochdubh, everyone in town is delighted... except for love-smitten Hamish Macbeth. Yet the affairs of his heart will have to wait. Vile, boorish Captain Bartlett, one of the guests at Priscilla's engagement party, has just been found murdered -- shot while on a grouse hunt. Now with so many titled party guests as prime suspects, each with their own reason for snuffing out the despicable captain, Hamish must smooth ruffled feathers as he investigates the case... and catch a killer, before they fly the coop!

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  • "Hamish Macbeth in Death of a cad"
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  • "When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiance home to Lochdubh, the whole town is delighted -- save perhaps for love-smitten bobby Hamish Macbeth. But the morning after a posh engagement party, one of the guests, Captain Bartlett, is murdered on a grouse hunt."
  • "When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiance home to Lochdubh, everyone in town is delighted... except for love-smitten Hamish Macbeth. Yet the affairs of his heart will have to wait. Vile, boorish Captain Bartlett, one of the guests at Priscilla's engagement party, has just been found murdered -- shot while on a grouse hunt. Now with so many titled party guests as prime suspects, each with their own reason for snuffing out the despicable captain, Hamish must smooth ruffled feathers as he investigates the case... and catch a killer, before they fly the coop!"@en
  • "Hamish Macbeth has his hands full of suspects after an unpopular houseguest of the Halburton-Smythes' is found shot dead, since everyone at the party had a reason for wanting the man out of the way."@en
  • "First published in 1987, this early novel in the mystery series featuring Hamish Macbeth, Scotland's most laconic and low-tech policeman, is available once again."
  • "At a party given for Priscilla Halburton-Smythe's fiance, a guest is murdered on the grouse moor and Constable Macbeth is called to investigate the death."
  • "At a party given for Priscilla Halburton-Smythe's fiance, a guest is murdered on the grouse moor and Constable Macbeth is called to investigate the death."@en
  • ""Murder Most Fowl When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiance home to Lochdubh, everybody in town is delighted...except for love-smitten Constable Hamish Macbeth. Yet his affairs of the heart will have to wait. Vile, boorish Captain Bartlett, one of the guests at Priscilla's engagement party, has just been found murdered-shot while on a grouse hunt. Now with many titled party guests as the prime suspects, each with a reason for snuffing out the despicable captain, Hamish must smooth ruffled feathers as he investigates the case. When the hidden culprit strikes again, Hamish will find himself trying to save Priscilla from a miserable marriage-and catch a killer before he flies the coop" -- Cover verso."@en
  • "When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiancé home to Lochdubh, everyone in town is delighted ... except for love-smitten Hamish Macbeth. Yet the affairs of his heart will have to wait. Vile, boorish Captain Bartlett, one of the guests at Priscilla's engagement party, has just been found murdered - shot while on a grouse hunt. Now with so many titled party guests as prime suspects, each with their own reason for snuffing out the despicable captain, Hamish must smooth ruffled feathers as he investigates the case ... and catch a killer, before they fly the coop!"@en
  • "At a celebration of Priscilla Halburton-Smythe's engagement, one guest in particular misbehaved. Boorish Captain Peter Bartlett managed to offend everyone--one person enough to kill him."
  • "At a celebration of Priscilla Halburton-Smythe's engagement, one guest in particular misbehaved. Boorish Captain Peter Bartlett managed to offend everyone--one person enough to kill him."@en

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  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
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  • "Fiction"

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  • "Death of a cad : [a Hamish Macbeth mystery]"@en
  • "Death of a cad"@en
  • "Death of a cad"
  • "Death of a Cad a Hamish Macbeth murder mystery"@en
  • "Hamish Macbeth in death of a cad"@en
  • "Death of a cad : a Hamish Macbeth mystery"

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