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Death of a Scriptwriter

By: M.C. Beaton
Narrated by: David Monteath
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Summary

 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©1998 M.C. Beaton Cosy Crime Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Highlander
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Another excellent Hamish Macbeth tale beautifully performed by David Monteath whose whose warmth and professionalism bring to life a whole cast of different characters with subtle but distinctly different voices. A joy to listen to,

Another excellent Hamish Macbeth tale beautifully performed by David Monteath

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MC Newton keeps you hanging on for Hamish to solve the plot. Poor Hamish, still unlucky in love.

Excellent story, keeps you hanging on to the last!

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A good evening listen. It's well written and well read, what more could you want. I will definitely go on to listen to more Hamish stories.

Very enjoyable and a good evening listen

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As ever, translators and adapters for film/TV never please an author; from Marguerite Duras to M. C. Beaton. God alone knows what Tolstoy would've made of recent TV "War & Peace" - I couldn't bear it for more than 15 minutes, and I didn't write it...
There is some self deprecating humour in this novel, very desirable. The

Adaptations betray!

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I always enjoy these books such easy listening all the same story really just different characters but still enjoyable

love these books

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