title: Death of a Bore (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, No. 21)
author:  M. C. Beaton 
description: <div>M. C. Beaton has won international acclaim for her New York Times bestselling Hamish Macbeth mysteries. The BBC has aired 24 episodes based on the series. Beaton is also the author of the bestselling Agatha Raisin series, which will air as an eight-episode dramatic series on Sky1, starring Ashley Jensen. She lives in the Cotswolds with her husband. For more information, you can visit MCBeaton.com.</div>
zlib_text: Title:
  
  **Death of a Cad**
  
  Series:
  
  **The second book in the Hamish MacBeth series**
  
  Author:
  
  **by M.C. Beaton**
  
  Year:
  
  **1987**
  
  Synopsis:
  
  When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiance home to
  Lochdubh, the whole town is delighted—save perhaps for love-smitten bobby
  Hamish Macbeth. But the morning after a posh engagement party, one of the
  guests, Captain Bartlett, is murdered on a grouse hunt. Unfortunately, the
  prime suspects are the party guests. And a second murder soon follows the
  first. Now Hamish Macbeth must cut through the alibis before the killer
  strikes again…all the while trying to woo the lovely Priscilla from her
  jealous boyfriend.
  
  **ONE**
  
  > Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,
  
  > Land of the mountain and the flood.
  
    
  
  > —Sir Walter Scott.
  
  **H** enry Withering, playwright, slumped down in the passenger seat of the
  station wagon after another bleak look out at the forbidding landscape.
  
  “Have we much farther to go, darling?” he asked plaintiv