num_pages: 293
description: They're still called dustmen in Britain. Not garbage collectors or sanitation engineers, but dustmen. Lochdubh, Scotland's dustman is a drunk named Fergus Macleod who lives in a run-down cottage and abuses his family. But Fergus's lot in life improves with the arrival of a recently elected environmentalist councilwoman who doubles Fergus's salary as the new "environment officer." The developing plan worries Constable Hamish Macbeth . . .
language: English
title: Death of a Dustman
titlecomplete: Death of a Dustman (Hamish Macbeth, #16)
characters: Freda Fleming, Clarry Graham, Detective Jimmy Anderson4, Fergus Macleod, Dr. Brodie, Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, Angela Brodie, Jessie Currie, Superintendent Peter Daviot, Martha Macleod, Chief Inspector Blair, Hamish Macbeth, Nessie Currie, Archie Maclean
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Murder Mystery, Scotland, Detective, Cozy Mystery, Humor, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 5475
places: Lochdubh, Scotland
series: Hamish Macbeth 
publisher: Thorndike Press