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Ebook

Published by Mysterious Press

ISBN 9780446930024

Published 22 June 1999

Hardcover

Published by Mysterious Press

ISBN 9780892966448

Published 1 June 1998

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Published by Grand Central Publishing

ISBN 9780446606981

Published 1 June 1999

Death of a Scriptwriter

Hamish Macbeth Mysteries Novel #14

By M.C. Beaton

First published June 1998

From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series…

DEATH OF A SCRIPTWRITER: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery

HOLLYWOOD IN THE HIGHLANDS
With the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe away in London, Lochdubh Constable Hamish Macbeth pines for company during the long Scottish winter. He gets his wish — and more — when a troupe of flashy, urbane filmmakers clamors into the nearby town of Drim. Before long bedlam erupts around their make-believe mystery …and culminates in the sudden appearance of one very real corpse.
The initial suspect in the killing is one Patricia Martyn-Broyd, the aging mystery writer furious that her musty old cozies are getting a risque face-lift in their TV reincarnation. Yet, going behind the scenes, Hamish soon finds a town full of locals bitten by the movie bug and a cast of quarreling show business types, all harboring their own secrets, lies, and hidden agendas. And as the culprit strikes again, Hamish must quickly find the right killer — or script the wrong finale to a show gone murderously awry.

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