M.C. Beaton: Death of a Travelling Man (UK 2017)

From the Publisher:
It's springtime in the Highlands and murder is in bloom!
Hamish Macbeth's life is going to pot. He has - horrors! - been promoted, his new boss is a dunce, and a sinister self-proclaimed gypsy and his girlfriend have parked their rusty eyesore of a van in the centre of the village. Hamish smells trouble and as usual he's right. The doctor's drugs go missing. Money vanishes. And neighbours suddenly become unneighbourty...

Nobody wants to volunteer a single scrap of information, so canny Hamish sets about the delicate task of worming the facts out of the villagers. And in the process he uncovers a story so bizarre that neither he nor the locals may ever recover from it.

'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

M.C. Beaton: Death of a Travelling Man. A Hamish Macbeth Murder Mystery. Constable, ISBN: 9781472124456 (November, 2013), 232 p., £8.99.

M.C. Beaton: Death of a Travelling Man (UK 2013)

From the Publisher:
It's springtime in the Highlands and murder is in bloom!
Hamish Macbeth's life is going to pot. He has - horrors! - been promoted, his new boss is a dunce, and a sinister self-proclaimed gypsy and his girlfriend have parked their rusty eyesore of a van in the centre of the village. Hamish smells trouble and as usual he's right. The doctor's drugs go missing. Money vanishes. And neighbours suddenly become unneighbourty...

Nobody wants to volunteer a single scrap of information, so canny Hamish sets about the delicate task of worming the facts out of the villagers. And in the process he uncovers a story so bizarre that neither he nor the locals may ever recover from it.

'Excellent... a cast of winning characters.' -- Publishers Weekly
'The detective novels of M.C. Beaton, a master of outrageous black comedy, have reached cult status.' -- ANNE ROBINSON, The Times

M.C. Beaton: Death of a Travelling Man. A Hamish Macbeth Murder Mystery. C & R Crime / Little, Brown, ISBN: 9781472105288 (September, 2013), 232 p., £7.99.

M.C. Beaton: Death of a Travelling Man (UK 2009)

From the Publisher:
It's springtime in the Highlands but storms are brewing for Hamish. Hamish Macbeth's life is going to pot. He has - horrors! - been promoted, his new boss is a dunce, and a sinister self-proclaimed gypsy and his girlfriend have parked their rusty eyesore of a van in the middle of the village.

Hamish smells trouble and as usual he's right. The doctor's drugs have gone missing. Money vanishes. And neighbours suddenly become unneighbourly. Nobody wants to talk either, so canny Hamish faces the delicate task of worming the facts out of the villagers.

In the process he uncovers a story so bizarre that neither he nor the locals may ever be able to forget it...

M.C. Beaton: Death of a Travelling Man. A Hamish Macbeth Murder Mystery. Robinson, ISBN: 1845297342 (January, 2009), 210 p., £6.99.

M.C. Beaton: Death of a Travelling Man (USA 1996)

From the Publisher:
Hamish Macbeth's life is going to pot. He's been promoted (horrors!), his boss is a dunce, and to add insult to injury -- a sinister self-proclaimed gypsy and his girlfriend have parked their rusty eyesore of a van in the village.

Hamish smells trouble and as usual he's right. The doctor's drugs go missing. Money vanishes. Neighbors grow suddenly unneighborly. Hamish regrets it only because he feels it in his bones that the killer may be one of his friends.

Nobody wants to volunteer even a scrap of useful information, so canny Hamish single-handedly sets about the delicate work of worming the facts out of his neighbors. Yet in the process he uncovers a story so bizarre that neither he nor the villagers may ever recover from it...

"EXCELLENT...A cast of winning characters." -- Publishers Weekly
"Scottish writer M.C. Beaton develops the locals with humor and verve." -- The Christian Science Monitor

M.C. Beaton: Death of a Travelling Man. A Hamish Macbeth Mystery. Ivy Books, ISBN: 0804112118 (July, 1996), 167 p., $4.99.

M.C. Beaton: Death of a Travelling Man (USA 1993)

From the Publisher:
Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth's new promotion means more money, but it also means that an eager beaver of a policeman, P.C. Willie Lamont, has been thrust upon him, interfering with Hamish's easygoing way of life.

On a walk escaping his new sidekick's bloodhound efficiency, Hamish sees a battered camper parked next to the Lochdubh Hotel. The man Hamish meets inside the camper would have been called a hippie not so long ago and a beatnik a long time before that. Now he belongs to a crowd who refer to themselves as "travellers": people who live like gypsies and try to demand the same rights. But Hamish knows real gypsies and is tolerant of them; they have rights and privileges that date back centuries. Hamish has no time for these so-called travellers, especially not this one, with his good looks and disturbingly smooth manner. Hamish takes an instant disliking to him, but the man manages to endear himself to several villagers. Only Hamish seems to realize the trouble this drifter is stirring up - until the man is found murdered in his camper.

Nothing ever happens in the sleepy Scottish town of Lochdubh - nothing except murder. And where there's murder there's Hamish Macbeth to lend his unique brand of charm and wit to the proceedings.

M.C. Beaton: Death of a Travelling Man. St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 0312097832 (December, 1993), 151 p., $17.95.