Death of a Perfect Wife
Book 4 of Hamish Macbeth
Language: English
Crime Detective Fiction Fiction - Mystery General Hamish (Fictitious character) Highlands Highlands (Scotland) Humour MacBeth Mystery Mystery & Detective Mystery & Detective - General Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural Mystery & Detective - Traditional British Mystery Fiction Police Police - Scotland - Highlands Police Procedural Scotland Suspense Traditional British
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: Jan 1, 1988
Description:
Hamish Macbeth, the laid-back constable of Lochdubh, Scotland, has a new Land Rover to drive and a Highland summer to savor, but as fast as rain rolls in from the loch, his happy life goes to hell in a handbasket. The trouble begins when his beloved Priscilla Halburton-Smythe returns from London . . . with a fiancé on her arm. His miseries multiply when clouds of midges (the diabolical Scottish mosquito) descend on the town. Then a paragon of housewifery named Trixie Thomas moves into Lochdubh with her lapdog husband in tow. The newcomer quickly convinces the local ladies to embrace low-cholesterol meals, ban tobacco, and begin bird-watching. Soon the town's fish-and-chips-loving men are up in arms. Now faced with the trials of his own soul, Macbeth must solve Lochdubh's newest crime-the mysterious poisoning of the perfect wife.