Death of a Dentist
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Beaton, M. C., PUBLISHER: Mysterious Press, Lovable Scottish constable Hamish Macbeth -- who would raong>theong>r be fishing than detecting -- ong>mustong> root out anoong>theong>r criminal in his thirteenth charmingly clever case. As ong>theong> small village of Lochdubh has no dentist, locals travel 20 miles to Frederick Gilchrist's dental surgery in ong>theong> town of Braikie. Although Lochdubh's one-man police force, Hamish Macbeth, prefers ong>theong> more modern, painless procedures practiced by dentists in ong>theong> city of Inverness, a blinding toothache one morning convinces him to give Gilchrist a try. Upon arriving, Hamish finds ong>theong> dentist dead on ong>theong> floor, a victim of nicotine poisoning. Discovering that ong>theong> deceased was a non-smoker, Hamish ong>mustong> put his own toothache on ice -- to extract a murderer on ong>theong> loose.