Beschreibung:
M. C. Beaton worked as a Fleet Street journalist. She is the author of sixteen Agatha Raisin novels, the Hamish McBeth series and an Edwardian murder-mystery series. She divides her time between the Cotswolds, where she lives in a village very much like Agatha Raisin's beloved Carsely, and Paris.
When Pc Hamish Macbeth is called out to a murder at the home of a practical joker, Arthur Trent, he doesn't race to the scene of the crime. After all last time he went to investigate a death at the isolated Scottish manor the victim was Trents manservant awash in fake blood. But Hamish arrives to find Trent decidedly dead and a household of grasping relatives