Best Quote : - 'Jimmy The water baliff, told me the other day he thinks Hamish Macbeth poaches'
- 'I doubt it' said Heather.'He's too lazy.'
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John Cartwright, owner and fishing instructor at the Lochdubh school of Casting in the Wilds of Scotland, had a premonition of evil doings. And when the latest class of anglers appeared, his fears were proved real by Lady Jane Winters - society widow and tale tattler, who delighted in exposing the all too incriminating pasts of the seemly innocent.
Who wouldn't want her shrills silenced?
Best Quote : 'A Crofters son once defined a croft as a small area of land entirely surrounded by regulations' - Katharine Stewart
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When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiance home to Lochdubh, the whole town is delighted, save perhaps for love-smitten bobby Hamish Macbeth.
But the morning after a tastefully posh engagement party, one of the guests, Captain Bartlett - who so enraged everyone with his boorish and caddish comments - has the bad manners to be murdered on a grouse shoot.
Best Quote : "I want a humane trap to catch the ferret that has been savaging our ducks." He gives me the trap and says,
"You take this here humane trap, and you humanely catch your ferret, and then, if you want my advice, you will humanely club the
wee bastard to death"
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Nobody in the Scottish town of Cnothan had liked the abrasiveEnglishman, and now that he had been murdered - in a most original fashion - nobody much minds. Constable Hamish Macbeth's hard luck is that he happens to be on temporary duty in this cloisted Highlands village when the killer strikes.
Best Quote : Hamish looked at him. He should arrest the farmer and charge him with assaulting a police officer and all sorts of other fiddles. It meant paperwork. It meant a court case.
He unlocked the handcuffs and tucked them away.
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Paul and Trixie Thomas were newcomers to the village and were concerned about fitting in. Trixie didn't let this stop her usual organisation of those around her though.
Soon she had the whole village involved in Vegetarianism, anti-smoking and birdwatching. Her ways cause a ranges of emotions to be displayed by villagers from loathing at
her meddling through to loving for her energy.
When Trixie is murdered, motives start to appear and Hamish has a real job on his hands.
Best Quote : Mary - 'I have never been so insulted in all my life'
Hamish - 'Oh, come on now, wi' a face and a manner like yours, you must have been'.
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About the best that can be said of her is that inside her middle-aged body, there still beats the heart of a beautiful tart
So when her car catches fire, with Maggie in it, there are five likely perpertrators right on the premises, houseguests in her luxurious Highlands cottage: Maggie's timid niece and four former lovers, one of whom Maggie has intended to pick for a husband
Best Quote : 'I've got you a present,' he shouted. 'It's in my coat pocket.'
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When Jane Wetherby offers Polica Constable Hamish Macbeth a 'holiday' at her 'Happy Wanderer' health farm on the isle of Eileencraig, his flagging spirits begin to rise. Thinking that he has finally found the source of some tender loving care, Hamish is tempted away from his sleepy Highland town of Lochdubh, and his beloved dog Towser.
Best Quote : 'I should guess .. that he is going to take all the credit' said Priscilla
'Aye, but this time I wass going to bargain. I was going to haff central heating put inthe police station'.
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Admittedly there's a touch of black humour in the case. Rich, old practical joker Andrew Trent summons his kin to remote Arrat House in the dead of winter for a deathbed farewell. They arrive to find him in perfect health and eager to torment them with a whole new bag of unfunny jokes.
Best Quote : 'I am moving in Sergent Macbeth. I am your new constable'
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Peta Gore is the bane of her partner's otherwise successful life. Trying to work with Peta on a matchmaking business that Peta uses mostly for her own purposes, Maria Worth has come to hate her old friend, a noisy, vulgar glutton who sucks and chomps and chews with relish. She also has a habit of showing up at Maria's carefully planned singles' gatherings and spoiling everything by flirting with all the men.
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