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Death of a Scriptwriter, Paperback / softback Book

Death of a Scriptwriter Paperback / softback

Part of the Hamish Macbeth series

Paperback / softback

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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 better, a London publisher is bringing the book into print.

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 Lady Harriet Vare is portrayed as a pot-smoking hippy, that the screenwriter is known for his violent and scurrilous scripts and that Lady Harriet is going to be played by the scene-stealing trollop Penelope Gates.

But a contract is a contract, Ms Martyn-Broyd quickly learns and when she is accused of murdering the scriptwriter and the leading lady, she turns to her one friend in Lochdubh, Hamish Macbeth, to help her.

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  • Format:Paperback / softback
  • Pages:304 pages
  • Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
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  • ISBN:9781472105332

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  • Format:Paperback / softback
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  • ISBN:9781472105332

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