- Mystery, Police, Hamish MacBeth (Fictitious character), Fiction
Gentle by name, gentle by nature. Everyone in the sleepy Scottish town of Lochdubh adores elderly Mrs. Gentle - everyone but Hamish Macbeth, that is. Hamish thinks the gentle lady is quite sly and vicious, and the citizens of Lochdubh think he is overly cranky.
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Classical in form, contemporary, effortless and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- effortlessdemanding
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Marion Chesney
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 129
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing, BBC Audiobooks America, BBC Audiobooks
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780446511407
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Marion Chesney was born in 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland. Her first job was a bookseller in charge of the fiction department in John Smith & Sons Ltd. While working there, the Scottish Daily Mail hired her to review variety shows; she quickly rose to be their theatre critic. She left Smith’s to work as a secretary--albeit without typing or shorthand skills--in the advertising department of Scottish Field magazine but was soon the fashion editor instead. She moved to the Scottish Daily Express, where she reported mostly on crime, then to Fleet Street and the Daily Express, where she was their chief woman reporter. Marion married Harry Scott Gibbons, and they had a son, Charles. Harry was offered
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