num_pages: 224
description: Lochdubhs dustman, Fergus Macleod, a sour little man given to domestic violence and drinking, gets by with a one-day work week collecting the villages trash. But when Mrs. Freda Fleming, wrath of the Strathbane Council, decides to make an environmental example out of Lochdubh, Fergus is promoted to man the new and elaborate recycling center. Now a bullying tyrant with a neat uniform and a new truck, he issues harsh fines and enforces petty rulesuntil he is found dead, stuffed into a recycling bin. Enter Hamish Macbeth, who now not only has to solve the murder, but juggle Fredas edicts, his lazy new constable, and labor trouble washing over the new oceanfront hotel.
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: 5476
places: Lochdubh, Scotland
series: Hamish Macbeth 
publisher: Mysterious Press