Death Of An Outsider

The most hated man in the most dour town of Scotland is sleeping with the fishes or more accurately dumped into a tank filled with crustaceans. All that remai... » 

The most hated man in the most dour town of Scotland is sleeping with the fishes or more accurately dumped into a tank filled with crustaceans. All that remain of the murdered victim are his bones. But after the lobsters are shipped off to Britains best restaurants the whole affair quickly lands on the plate of Constable Hamish Macbeth. Exiled with his dog Towser to the dreary outpost of Cnothan Macbeth sorely misses his beloved Lochdubh his formerly beloved Priscilla HalburtonSmythe and his days of doing nothing but staring at the sheep grazing in a nearby croft. Now the lawman has to contend with a detective chief inspector who wants the modus operandi hushed up a darkhaired lass who has an ulterior motive to seduce him and a killer who has made mincemeat of his victim and without doubt will strike again. «