num_pages: 198
description: From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...DEATH OF A SCRIPTWRITER: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery HOLLYWOOD IN THE HIGHLANDSWith the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe away in London, Lochdubh Constable Hamish Macbeth pines for company during the long Scottish winter. He gets his wish -- and more -- when a troupe of flashy, urbane filmmakers clamors into the nearby town of Drim. Before long bedlam erupts around their make-believe mystery ...and culminates in the sudden appearance of one very real corpse.The initial suspect in the killing is one Patricia Martyn-Broyd, the aging mystery writer furious that her musty old cozies are getting a risque face-lift in their TV reincarnation. Yet, going behind the scenes, Hamish soon finds a town full of locals bitten by the movie bug and a cast of quarreling show business types, all harboring their own secrets, lies, and hidden agendas. And as the culprit strikes again, Hamish must quickly find the right killer -- or script the wrong finale to a show gone murderously awry.
language: English
title: Death of a Scriptwriter
titlecomplete: Death of a Scriptwriter (Hamish Macbeth, #14)
characters: Chief Inspector Blair, Hamish Macbeth, Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, Jimmy Anderson
genres: Audiobook, Cozy Mystery, Detective, Crime, Scotland, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Humor, Murder Mystery
ratings_count: 5652
places: Sutherland, Scotland
series: Hamish Macbeth 
publisher: Warner Books