Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Death of Chimney Sweep


Pure escapism

Nothing is more blissful than the latest Hamish McBeth mystery and a cup of tea!

Hamish is a truly happy man who lives in a small village called Lochduh - in the Highlands of Scotland

He is the man without any ambition.

He loves to solve mysteries and is a remarkably shrewd and relies a lot on his intuition

(The intuition is a lot  like the other series by this author - The Agatha Raisin Series - which I also love )

I have read every book by MC Beaton ( and in fact re-read several of hers )

The story is about a bossy and controlling Captain Davenport - who moves to the village of Drim with his wimpy wife - Milly

Captain Davenport is a spiteful man who is clearly scared of something

One day he he gets a phonecall

He tells his wife that he will be out for the day and that  a visitor may come. Its imperative that she  tell the visitor that the Captain is abroad

His wife- free of her bullying husband - goes down to the village- after letting the chimney sweep in

However when she returns - she notices that blood is dripping from the chimney !

The Captain has been murdered and stuffed up the chimney in his fireplace

The chimney sweep is suspected but he is dead too

As always, Hamish comes to rescue and a few more dead bodies - and a lot of charm later -the mystery is solved 

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