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Scottish sleuth Hamish Macbeth investigates the murder of Fergus Macleod, the irascible, tyrannical head of Lochdubh's new recycling center, while coping with the bizarre edicts of Freda Fleming, a member of the Strathbane Council, his lazy new constable, and increasing labor unrest at the new oceanfront hotel.

Trouble is afoot in a Scottish fishing village as Constable Macbeth finds the pub empty, the church full, and the air permeated with fear. With the help of a journalist, Macbeth begins to ferret out the truth.

After a dead body is found stuffed up a chimney and then lovable chimney sweep Pete Ray also ends up dead, it is up to Police Constable Hamish MacBeth to scour the Scottish Highlands to find out who is responsible for the dirty deeds.

"When Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth hears reports of a haunted castle near Drim, he assumes the eerie noises and lights reported by the villagers are just local teenagers going there to smoke pot or, worse, inject themselves with drugs. Still, Hamish decides that he and his policeman, Charlie "Clumsy" Carson, will spend the night at the ruined castle to get to the bottom of the rumors once and for all. There's no sign of any ghost...but then Charlie...

Police constable Hamish Macbeth keeps the peace in the small Scottish town of Lochdubh in his own unique way.

Police constable Hamish Macbeth keeps the peace in the small Scottish town of Lochdubh in his own unique way. The great Lochdubh salt robbery: Hamish and Wee Jock sniff out an unsavory connection when a notorious bully and three hundred weight of salt go missing. A pillar of the community: Hamish is delighted when the author of his favoritie westerns moves to Lochdubh, but the stranger's meddlesome wife quickly wears out her welcome. The big freeze:...

Many a baffling mystery and outrageous scam lurk behind the closed doors of Lochdubh, and Hamish needs all his skill to keep the big boys from Inverness off his patch. If only his love life were as easy to solve, but that is another story.

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth is worried about how the locals, as well as those in the wider area of his territory in Sutherland, will react to his new assistant officer. The officer is none other than the enigmatic American James Bland who is on an exchange scheme from his home city of Chicago in the United States, supposedly to study policing methods in Scotland. Hamish knows that this is far from the truth. Having recently become involved in identifying...