

While bookselling, by chance, she got an offer from the Scottish Daily Mail to review variety shows and quickly rose to be their theatre critic. Marion Chesney was born on 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, and started her first job as a bookseller in charge of the fiction department in John Smith & Sons Ltd. But can Hamish find the killer on his own?Īka: Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Marion Chesney, Charlotte Ward, Sarah Chester. Now Hamish is faced with a bewildering array of suspects, this time without the services of his clumsy policeman, Charlie, who resigned from the force after one too many confrontations with Hamish's incompetent boss, Chief Inspector Blair. A refrain of I could kill that man, could be heard from Lochdubh to Cnothan. He told Jessie Currie-who compulsively repeats all the last words of her twin sister-that she needed psychiatric help.

He accused Hamish of having dyed his fiery red hair. Angela Brody was told her detective stories were pap for the masses and that she should write real literature instead. Wellington that she was too fat and should set a better example in these days of increasing obesity.

Wellington, that his sermons were boring. Paul first attended church in Lochdubh and told the minister, Mr. Paul had moved to a house in Cnothan, a sour village on Hamish's beat, where he immediately started to stir up outrage among his neighbors. Nobody loves an honest man-or that was what police sergeant Hamish Macbeth tried to tell newcomer Paul English.
