Death of a sweep

Description:

In the south of Scotland, residents get their chimneys vacuum cleaned. But in the isolated villages in the very north of Scotland, the villagers rely on the services of the itinerant sweep, Pete Ray, and his old fashioned brushes. Pete is always able to find work in the Scottish highlands, until one day when Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices blood dripping onto the floor of a villager.s fireplace, and a dead body stuffed inside the chimney.

subjects: Chimney sweeps,  Detective and mystery stories,  Police,  Lochdubh (Scotland : Imaginary place),  Crimes against,  Fiction,  Macbeth, hamish (fictitious character), fiction,  Lochdubh (scotland : imaginary place), fiction,  Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural,  Crime, fiction,  Scotland, fiction,  Fiction, crime

People: Hamish Macbeth (Fictitious character)

Places: Highlands,  Scotland