from alanteder

Macbeth and the Heirs of the Prankster Review of the Blackstone Audio Inc. audiobook edition (2013) of the St. Martin's Press hardcover original (1992) After discovering M.C. Beaton's Hamish Macbeth cozy mystery series due to the Estonia cameo in "Death of Yesterday", I started to seek out the e...

from adeej

I quite enjoyed this one. It certainly didn't have the ending that I expected. Another fun mystery read from the hands of M.C. Beaton.

from Aspenhugger

"When Police Constable Hamish Macbeth receives the news that there has been a murder at Arrat House, home of the relentless practical joker Arthur Trent, he doesn't exactly race to the scene of the crime. After all, the last time Macbeth was called to investigate a death at the isolated Scottish ...

from madamejeanie

Andrew Trent was a filthy rich, crotchety old man, with a wickedly black sense of humor. He had spent his entire life playing often vicious practical jokes on his family and staff until hardly any of them could stand him anymore. Nobody ever visited him in Arrat House in the far north of Scotland...

from joeydag

These little mysteries are so easy to pick up and not put down until they are down. I have a hard time believing I read the whole thing today in three sit-downs. This is an early story where Hamish and Blair are not so insanely at each other's throats, and Priscilla is a good friend.