num_pages: 179
description: Scottish highland village cop Hamish Macbeth must find which target was provoked enough to strangle and drown nasty fat widowed tabloid reporter Jane Winters, who revealed many others' guilty secrets. Much is from the viewpoint of a naive secretary seduced by a blue-blood playboy. Icy blond beauty, aristocratic Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, lends a hand.
language: English
title: Death of a Gossip
titlecomplete: Death of a Gossip (Hamish Macbeth, #1)
characters: Chief Inspector Blair, Hamish Macbeth, Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, Jimmy Anderson
genres: Audiobook, Cozy Mystery, Detective, Crime, Scotland, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Fiction, Murder Mystery
ratings_count: 17561
series: Hamish Macbeth 
publisher: Warner Books