Hamish MacBeth is an offbeat "whodunnit" series, spiced with laconic wit and outrageous black comedy. Hamish is a young policeman, who has a shrewd knack of solving the bizarre cases that come his ...

The creator of two of the world's best-loved fictional detectives has died at the age of 83. Marion Chesney Gibbons, who wrote under the pseudonym MC Beaton, was the prolific author of the Hamish ...