{"product_id":"9781472124500-death-of-a-scriptwriter","title":"Death of a Scriptwriter","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 14th outing for M.C. Beaton's Highland bobby Hamish Macbeth, now with a gorgeous new cover.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTruth is stranger than fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePatricia 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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImagine her horror when Miss Martyn-Broyd discovers that the screenwriter is known for his violent and scurrilous scripts and that Lady Harriet Vare is to be portrayed as a pot-smoking hippy by the scene-stealing trollop Penelope Gates. But a contract is a contract, as Ms Martyn-Broyd quickly learns. And when she is accused of murdering both the scriptwriter and the leading lady, she turns to her one friend in Lochdubh, Hamish Macbeth, to help her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for M.C. Beaton:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The books are a delight: clever, intricate, sardonic and amazingly true to the real Highlands' Kerry Greenwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It's always a special treat to return to Lochdubh' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39796564066401,"sku":"9781472124500","price":5.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34583905_1ed77d6e-bd04-45ab-bfee-75e112ce2892.jpg?v=1748465920","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781472124500-death-of-a-scriptwriter","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}