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Death of a Scriptwriter

M.C. Beaton

Truth is stranger than fiction...

Patricia Martyn-Broyd now in her seventies has retired to the Highlands. She hasn't written a word in years and her books are out of print. But now a television company is about to film her last detective story featuring the aristocratic Scottish detective Lady Harriet Vare. Even though the snobbish Miss Martyn-Broyd doesn't care to mix with the locals she can't help but share her excitement with local policeman Hamish Macbeth.

Imagine her horror when Miss Martyn-Broyd discovers that the screenwriter is known for his violent and scurrilous scripts and that Lady Harriet Vare is to be portrayed as a pot-smoking hippy by the scene-stealing trollop Penelope Gates. But a contract is a contract as Ms Martyn-Broyd quickly learns. And when she is accused of murdering both the scriptwriter and the leading lady she turns to her one friend in Lochdubh Hamish Macbeth to help her.

Praise for M.C. Beaton:

'The books are a delight: clever intricate sardonic and amazingly true to the real Highlands' Kerry Greenwood

'It's always a special treat to return to Lochdubh' New York Times

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  • Classification : Thriller, Crime & Mystery
  • Pub Date : MAY 1, 2018
  • Imprint : Constable
  • Page Extent : 304
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781472124500
  • Price : INR 699
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M.C. Beaton

M.C. Beaton (1936-2019) was the author of both the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series as well as numerous Regency romances. Her books have been translated into seventeen languages and have sold more than twenty-one million copies worldwide. She is consistently the most borrowed UK adult author in British libraries and her Agatha Raisin books have been turned into a TV series on Sky.

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