TY - BOOK AU - Beaton,M.C. TI - Death of a travelling man T2 - The Hamish Macbeth series SN - 9781845297343 (pbk.) U1 - 823/.914 20 PY - 2009/// CY - London PB - Robinson KW - MacBeth, Hamish (Fictitious character) KW - Fiction KW - Police KW - Scotland KW - Highlands KW - Highlands (Scotland) KW - Detective and mystery stories KW - lcsh N2 - CRIME & MYSTERY. It's springtime in the Highlands but storms are brewing for Hamish. Hamish Macbeth's life is going to pot. He has - horrors! - been promoted, his new boss is a dunce, and a sinister self-proclaimed gypsy and his girlfriend have parked their rusty eyesore of a van in the middle of the village. Hamish smells trouble and as usual he's right. The doctor's drugs have gone missing. Money vanishes. And neighbours suddenly become unneighbourly. Nobody wants to talk either, so canny Hamish faces the delicate task of worming the facts out of the villagers. In the process he uncovers a story so bizarre that neither he nor the locals may ever be able to forget it ER -