- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group) (1 Jun 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0553409727
- ISBN-13: 978-0553409727
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.7 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Maria Worth has come to hate her partner, Peta Gore, who has become the bane of her otherwise successful business life. When Peta turns up at a gathering in a remote village, everyone bands together in mutual loathing - but does someone hate her enough to kill her? Hamish Macbeth investigates.
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M. C. Beaton worked as a Fleet Street journalist. She is the author of sixteen Agatha Raisin novels, the Hamish McBeth series and an Edwardian murder-mystery series. She divides her time between the Cotswolds, where she lives in a village very much like Agatha's beloved Carsely, and Paris.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Peta Gore is the latest in M.C. Beaton's gallery of grotesques created specifically for a speedy demise. Co-founder of the Checkmate Singles Club but now its major embarrassment, Peta gatecrashes the romantic week arranged at Tommel Castle Hotel for eight of its members. What hope have they now for gently developing romance with her in their midst, gargantuan and guzzling? Despairing fellow co-founder Maria Worth tries frantically to limit the damage....
In due course Peta is found face up in a quarry, an apple rammed into her mouth. Suspects abound - not only the love hopefuls whose plans she exoceted, but volatile chef Sean whom she so enraged that he subsequently served her a casserole of wild cat.
Lochdubh's Hamish Macbeth investigates, he with romantic problems of his own - relationships strained between him and Priscilla. Sadly the case this time seems somewhat lacklustre, it hard to become particularly interested. Hamish solves it of course (when was it otherwise?), but by using tactics not to his credit - as he himself admits.
The series has become a tad predictable, this eighth entry not amongst the best. A surprise development at the very end may provide a welcome shot in the arm for the next novel.
By the way, there is one reason to celebrate. At long last, Priscilla stands up to her appalling father and gives him a devastating piece of her mind. Should HE be the victim in a sequel, many readers may applaud - provided Priscilla does not turn out to be the culprit.
In due course Peta is found face up in a quarry, an apple rammed into her mouth. Suspects abound - not only the love hopefuls whose plans she exoceted, but volatile chef Sean whom she so enraged that he subsequently served her a casserole of wild cat.
Lochdubh's Hamish Macbeth investigates, he with romantic problems of his own - relationships strained between him and Priscilla. Sadly the case this time seems somewhat lacklustre, it hard to become particularly interested. Hamish solves it of course (when was it otherwise?), but by using tactics not to his credit - as he himself admits.
The series has become a tad predictable, this eighth entry not amongst the best. A surprise development at the very end may provide a welcome shot in the arm for the next novel.
By the way, there is one reason to celebrate. At long last, Priscilla stands up to her appalling father and gives him a devastating piece of her mind. Should HE be the victim in a sequel, many readers may applaud - provided Priscilla does not turn out to be the culprit.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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The Tommel Castle hotel - home to Priscilla Halburton-Smythe and her parents - is playing host to a group of people from a dating agency. But things do not go as well as they should when one of the owners of the dating agency, the glutton of the title, appears at the hotel unexpectedly and upsets everyone.
I love food but even I found the descriptions of Peta's eating exploits pretty hard to take and it's best not to read them after you have just eaten. In spite of her gross eating habits she did not deserve to die. Nearly everyone at the hotel had at some time expressed the wish that she would die so Hamish Macbeth has plenty of suspects to pick from.
I thought the characters were interesting and their various suspect reasons for wanting to get married and there is of course one of the women who becomes interested in Hamish - much to his discomfort. Priscilla plays a bigger part in this book than in some of the stories and it is easy to see why Hamish thinks so much of her.
I didn't enjoy this book as much as some of the Hamish Macbeth series but it is still a good story. I didn't think the motive for the murder was quite as plausible as in some of the books but it is still an interesting book.
I love food but even I found the descriptions of Peta's eating exploits pretty hard to take and it's best not to read them after you have just eaten. In spite of her gross eating habits she did not deserve to die. Nearly everyone at the hotel had at some time expressed the wish that she would die so Hamish Macbeth has plenty of suspects to pick from.
I thought the characters were interesting and their various suspect reasons for wanting to get married and there is of course one of the women who becomes interested in Hamish - much to his discomfort. Priscilla plays a bigger part in this book than in some of the stories and it is easy to see why Hamish thinks so much of her.
I didn't enjoy this book as much as some of the Hamish Macbeth series but it is still a good story. I didn't think the motive for the murder was quite as plausible as in some of the books but it is still an interesting book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Great book as always Beaton manages to combine the gentle nature and excellent sluething skills of Macbeth with his struggle to keep his love of Pricilla in check!
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Death of a Glutton
'Death of a Glutton' was pleasant reading providing entertainment and enjoyment throughout. It continues the works of M.C. Beaton who is always a joy to read.
Published 2 months ago by G Mitch
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Ordered this for a friend and she was well pleased with the Amazon service and price not my type of book so cannot comment
Published on 23 Feb 2010 by N. H. Mcleay
More Fun If You Find the Suspects Humorous
Death of a Glutton is the eighth Hamish Macbeth mystery. It's the beautiful days of summer in Lochdubh, days that are soon to be replaced with cold and rain. Read more
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