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Mrs. Gillespie is famous around the northwest of Sutherland for being the best charwoman ever. Of course, if anyone has any social pretensions one does not say charwoman, one talks about "my maid". Hamish Macbeth wins Mrs. Gillespie's services in a church raffle but spends most of the day trying to avoid her. She is a malicious gossip and she bangs around the furniture and clanks pots—he wonders how on earth she managed to get such a good reputation. Then she is found dead in a large house belonging to a retired professor who was out the day she was killed. She has been struck down by a metal bucket of water. Remembering Mrs. Gillespie's malicious gossip, Hamish is sure she delighted in finding out secrets and probably searched through the drawers of the houses she cleaned, which means everyone whose home she cleaned could be a suspect.
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Neil Baker
reviewed Death of a Maid (Hamish Macbeth Series #23) on September 27, 2020 Death of a Maid (Hamish Macbeth Series #23)
I would like to have read these books in order, but I'm not buying them, since my library has them all. The catch is I have to wait until they are available and apparently Hamish Macbeth is very popular here in East Texas. I have heard the first couple of Hamish Macbeth that I suppose were written in the nineties and have jumped to one of the last MacBeth's.
Some of the internal dramas are spoiled this way, but the mystery is still good. In fact, I would say that actual story line is more developed, more complex, and involving a few more twists and turns than the earlier ones I've read.
MacBeth may be a little older and more cynical as well, but nothing to detract from a good mystery.
If you want to know what Death of a Maid is about you can read the blurb, but I will simply say that a nasty old char woman has found a way to intimidate and bully her clients. Why? To get rich? Maybe another reason. She finally threatens the wrong person and ends up with her head bashed in. The rest of the story is Hamish hunting and gathering clues.
It's interesting to me how many of these mysteries, not just M.C. Beaton's but many mystery writers make the murder victim out to be someone that everyone wants murdered. In real life, of course, perfectly innocent people get murdered as well, but I think for a cozy mystery, it's much more comfortable if the victim was someone everyone, including the reader, is glad to have dead.
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