title: The Glens of Silence: The Landscapes of the Scottish Clearances
author: David Paterson
description: David Paterson is a well-known landscape photographer who runs the Wildcountry Photolibrary in Glencoe. He has taken on assignments throughout the world and has published a number of photography books, including Border Landscape and London: City on a River (both in collaboration with Sir Julian Critchley), and two books of mountain photography - The Way to Cold Mountain and Heart of the Himalaya. David Craig is author of the best-selling On the Crofters' Trail.
zlib_text: **DEATH of a**  
   **SWEEP**
  
  A Hamish Macbeth Murder Mystery
  
   **M. C. BEATON**
  
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  > > > _To Georgie Askew and Dave Tapping and to the staff of the beautiful
  > Cavendish Hotel on the Chatsworth Estate who sheltered us one whole winter’s
  > afternoon, although we were not guests. Many thanks._
  
  Contents
  
    
  
   _Title Page_  
  _Dedication_  
  _Chapter One_  
  _Chapter Two_  
  _Chapter Three_  
  _Chapter Four_  
  _Chapter Five_  
  _Chapter Six_  
  _Chapter Seven_  
  _Chapter Eight_  
  _Chapter Nine_  
  _Chapter Ten_  
  _Chapter Eleven_  
  _Chapter Twelve_  
  _Epilogue_  
  _By the Same Author_  
  _Copyright_  
  
  _Chapter One_
  
  > > > > >  _Golden lads and girls all must,_
  
  > > > > > _As chimney-sweepers, come to dust._
  
  > > > > > – WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
  
  The village of Drim in the county of Sutherland in the north-west of Scotland
  was rarely visited by outsiders. Not even the most romantic member of the
  tartan lunatic fringe of the lowland cities could claim it to be a place of
  either