Death of a Nag

Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth is more dour than ever after losingboth his promotion and his girl, the loyal Priscilla Halbourton-Smythe.Atrip to a charming seaside inn with his dog Towser is meant to raisehissagging spirits. Instead, he arrives at "Friendly House" to find theambiance chilling, the food inedible, and his fellow guests less thanneighborly. There's an amorous spinster, two tarty girls, a retiredmilitary man, a secretive London family, and Bob Harris, who so nagshiswife, Doris, that everyone wants to kill him. Then somebody does. SoonMacbeth is called upon to act -- to dig into the past and deep intotheheart to deliver something more daunting than merely the culprit: Justice.

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