Death Of A Scriptwriter Av M. C. Beaton

<p><b>Truth is stranger than fiction...</b><br><br>Patricia Martyn-Broyd, now in her seventies, has retired to the Highlands. She hasn''t written a word in years and her books are out of print. But now a television company is about to film her last detective story, featuring the aristocratic Scottish detective Lady Harriet Vare. Even though the snobbish Miss Martyn-Broyd doesn''t care to mix with the locals, she can''t help but share her excitement with local policeman Hamish Macbeth.<br><br>Imagine her horror when Miss Martyn-Broyd discovers that the screenwriter is known for his violent and scurrilous scripts and that Lady Harriet Vare is to be portrayed as a pot-smoking hippy by the scene-stealing trollop Penelope Gates. But a contract is a contract, as Ms Martyn-Broyd quickly learns. And when she is accused of murdering both the scriptwriter and the leading lady, she turns to her one friend in Lochdubh, Hamish Macbeth, to help her.<br><br><b>Praise for M.C. Beaton:</b><br><br>''The books are a delight: clever, intricate, sardonic and amazingly true to the real Highlands'' Kerry Greenwood<br><br>''It''s always a special treat to return to Lochdubh'' <i>New York Times</i></p>