What is the full name of the policeman in the Scottish village of Lochdubh created by M C Beaton?
"Hamish Macbeth Hamish Macbeth is a fictional police officer who serves as his town's 'bobby' in a series of mystery novels created by M. C. Beaton (Marion Chesney). The novels are published in the UK by Constable & Robinson and are set in the Scottish Highlands, in the fictitious town of Lochdubh. Hamish Macbeth is the eldest of seven siblings and has three brothers and three sisters. His parents are crofters and as the eldest son, Hamish is expected to contribute to his family's income. He lives in Lochdubh's police station and keeps some sheep and chickens and grows some"
"Hamish has revealed the solution to a long unsolved crime in Scotland and proven the identity of the mysterious ""Gentleman Jim"", the brains behind this notorious crime. Despite his success, Hamish is once again out of favour with his superiors in Strathbane. Hamish is demed to be too unorthodox, too much a maverick to be allowed to remain in the police force. The villagers of Lochdubh march into Strathbane and demand that their village constable retains his position in Lochdubh. Given the media coverage of his success and the flashing cameras and television crews accompanying the villagers' march, his superiors"
"were adapted into the BBC Scotland television series ""Hamish Macbeth"". Running for three series between 1995 and 1997, the titular police officer was played by Robert Carlyle. The first and second series comprised six episodes and the third had an additional two-part series finale to make eight episodes. The series bore little relation to the content of Beaton's novels. Macbeth and Lochdubh were retained, in name at least, but little else survived. The author was not happy with the TV series. ""It wasn't like the books, I wrote about a six-foot laid-back highlander and I got a 5ft 8"" Glaswegian"
"Gideon of Scotland Yard Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard is a fictional policeman who appeared in 26 police procedural novels, 21 of which were written by John Creasey under the pseudonym J.J. Marric, and published between 1955 and 1976. Portraying Gideon as a master balancing the management of cases and the workings of law enforcement, it has been considered his ""most famous police procedural series"". After Creasey's death, the series was continued in five further novels by William Vivian Butler. Anthony Boucher of the ""New York Times Book Review"" considered the first of the books, ""Gideon's Day"" (1955), to"
"Gideon's Day Gideon's Day is the first in a series of police procedural novels by John Creasey writing as J.J. Marric. Published in 1955, it features a day in the professional life of Detective Superintendent George Gideon of the C.I.D., Scotland Yard. In later books in the series, Gideon has been promoted to the rank of C.I.D. Commander. Gideon’s Day follows senior Superintendent George ‘Gee-Gee’ Gideon of Scotland Yard through one day of his 20-year career, during which a dozen different problems beset him and his men at Scotland Yard. C.I.D. Superintendent George Gideon is furious when he finds out"
"vegetables. He is occasionally guilty of poaching a salmon, sometimes for himself, but often as a gift or bribe for others. Hamish has a reputation for laziness. He loves the town of Lochdubh (meaning 'black lake' (loch) in Gaelic and pronounced Lokh-DOO) and is content and at peace with his life and lacks ambition. Of great concern to Hamish and his fellow villagers is the threat of possible closure of Lochdubh's police station, something his superior and archenemy, Chief Inspector Blair, would like to see. Hamish avoids promotion, occasionally even deliberately destroying attempts to give him recognition for his accomplishments."
"short stories, ""No Rest for the Wicked"" and ""A Child is Born"", were published in ""The Scotsman"". Two more short stories, ""End of the Line"" and ""The Painted Lady"", are available for purchase in Amazon Kindle e-book format. All of these are also by David Ashton. James McLevy James McLevy (1796–1875) was a prominent detective in Edinburgh during the mid-19th century, and later an author of popular crime mysteries. The son of a farmer, he was born in Ballymacnab in County Armagh, Ireland. McLevy later moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, and became a builder's labourer before joining the police force in"
"The Loch (TV series) The Loch (also known as Loch Ness) is a six-part British television drama series, created by screenwriter Stephen Brady, that first broadcast on ITV on 11 June 2017. The series follows DS Annie Redford (Laura Fraser), a small town police officer with the Scottish Highland Police as she investigates the murder of piano teacher Niall Swift, who is found dead at the bottom of a cliff in the picturesque village of Lochnafoy, Loch Ness. When it becomes apparent that part of Swift's brain has been removed, and a human heart belonging to another victim is found"
"Patrick Colquhoun Patrick Colquhoun (14 March 1745 – 25 April 1820) was a Scottish merchant, statistician, magistrate, and founder of the first regular preventive police force in England, the Thames River Police. Colquhoun, a descendent of the Scottish Clan Colquhoun of Luss, was born in Dumbarton in 1745. Orphaned at the age of 16, his relatives sent him to America, setting him up in the lucrative commercial trade in Virginia. In 1766, the 21-year-old Colquhoun returned to Scotland, settling in Glasgow and going into business on his own in the linen trade. Ten years later, with the outbreak of the"
"area as The Knight of Glendoo. On one occasion when he was on the run he was hiding in the cellar of his business premises in Wicklow Street when police raided it. An employee named James Fitzpatrick who strongly resembled Capt. Kelly in appearance was arrested in error and was tried and sentenced to six months imprisonment, which he served without betraying his identity. Capt. Kelly died on 8 March 1915, aged 70. On the opposite side of the road is Crannagh Park and Road, Rathfarnham Park and Ballytore Road, all built on part of the old Rathfarnham Estate. In"
"Barry Prudom Barry Peter Prudom (18 October 1944 – 4 July 1982) was an English electrician and multiple murderer, known as The Phantom in the Forest, who became the subject of a police manhunt and what was at the time the largest armed police operation Great Britain had ever seen, involving 12 police forces. Prudom became a fugitive after killing PC David Haigh on 17 June 1982. Before being captured he killed twice more, shooting civilian George Luckett on 23 June 1982 and Police Sergeant David Winter on 28 June 1982. Described as an ""avid outdoorsman and firearms enthusiast"" Prudom's"
"series was based on the career of the former Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Robert Fabian, who usually appeared briefly before the final fade-out to wind up the story. Bruce's last role was as the voice of Beadle in ""The Wonderful World of Disney"" from 1962-63. He fenced and boxed in the Army and was a founder member with other actors of the Lord’s Taverners, a charity which raises funds to support participation in cricket. Bruce Seton Major Sir Bruce Lovat Seton of Abercorn, 11th Baronet (29 May 1909 – 28 September 1969) was a British actor and soldier. Bruce Lovat"
"to petty criminals or small-time hoodlums. A 1982 analysis of crime fiction discussing Knox's 1977 novel ""Pilot Error"" noted his description of Strathclyde Police as being unconcerned about ""neds"" getting hurt in a fight as long as no-one else was affected. His final novel, ""The Lazarus Widow"", was unfinished at the time of his death, and was completed by Martin Edwards. Bill Knox William (Bill) Knox (1928 – March 1999) was a Scottish author, journalist and broadcaster, best known for his crime novels and for presenting the long-running STV series ""Crimedesk"". Born in Glasgow, Knox became the youngest journalist for"
"comes to live with her aunt after a serious operation for cancer. Alison is a diffident young woman, easily intimidated by her domineering aunt. Hamish Macbeth and his dog Towser are living in Strathbane. Lochdubh's police station has been closed. Neither Hamish, walking the beat with hard bitten PC Mary Graham, nor Towser, housed in police dog kennels with tough German Shepherds is happy away from their beloved village. Maggie Baird, at a dinner party with the Halbuton-Smyths in Lochdubh, learns that the villagers are missing their local bobby, Hamish Macbeth. Maggie is intrigued and decides to rally the village"
"Gideon's Wrath ""Gideon's Wrath' is the thirteenth in a series of police procedural novels by John Creasey writing as J.J. Marric. Published in 1967, it centres on Commander George Gideon of the C.I.D., Scotland Yard. ‘Gideon’s Wrath’ sees Gideon wrestling with several major crimes, as well as debating who to recommend to the Commissioner as his new Deputy Commander; Hobbs or Lemaitre? Attacks are being mounted with explosives on places of worship throughout London. The Dean of St Ludd’s approaches Gideon with his suspicions and a plan of action is formulated. As many police as can be spared are posted"
"Hamish Macbeth, featured in a series of novels by M. C. Beaton, is a notable exception). These characters are typically well educated, intuitive, and hold jobs that bring them into constant contact with other residents of their community and the surrounding region (e.g., caterer, innkeeper, librarian, teacher, dog trainer, shop owner, reporter). Like other amateur detectives, they typically have a contact on the police force who can give them access to important information about the case at hand, but the contact is typically a spouse, lover, friend, or family member rather than a former colleague. Dismissed by the authorities in"
"photographs and latent fingerprints on the burned out vehicle found near Leeds were found to be those of Prudom. Ballistic tests proved that the same gun had been used in the killings of Haigh and Luckett, and the police released Prudom's name to the media as their prime suspect and the most wanted man in Britain. At 14.00, Police Sergeant David Winter, 31, and PC Mick Wood received information about a suspicious man seen in the village of Old Malton, North Yorkshire, 200 yards from the village police station. Winter challenged Prudom, who produced his pistol and opened fire. Although"
"States in 2005 and 2006 respectively, with the exception of the first series episode ""West Coast Story"". This was due to rights issues surrounding the episode's extensive use of excerpts from ""West Side Story"". Hamish Macbeth, a police constable in the Northern Constabulary, accompanied by his dog, a West Highland Terrier named Wee Jock, keeps the peace in the small town of Lochdubh (pronounced with the guttural 'ch' sound, LoCH-DOO). Macbeth does this in his own way, without undue reliance on the letter of the law and with every intention of avoiding being promoted out of what is his ideal"
"detection in Scotland. As part of its ""Afternoon Drama"" programme, BBC Radio 4 has broadcast to date twelve series of dramas written by David Ashton and starring Brian Cox as McLevy, Siobhan Redmond as Jean Brash, Michael Perceval-Maxwell as Constable Martin Mulholland and David Ashton as Lieutenant Robert Roach. In the 1999 pilot play, Phyllis Logan played Jean and John Paul Hurley played Mulholland. Lieutenant Roach was not introduced until the actual first episode of Series One; in the pilot play, McLevy's superior was Lieutenant Moxey, with the change in command explained as Moxey having been ""elevated"" to The Haymarket"
"Banffshire (between the villages of Port Gordon and Buckie). William Merrilees William Merrilees OBE QPM (24 September 1898 – 21 August 1984) was Chief Constable of the Lothians and Peebles Constabulary from 1950 to 1968. Merrilees is one of Scotland's best known policeman, thanks to a flamboyant career involving disguise, celebrated court cases, and continual charity work. Known as ""the pocket-sized detective with a battleship reputation,"" he was featured in the youth comic book ""Valiant,"" and painted twice by Henry Raeburn Dobson. In November 1959 he appeared on This is your Life, hosted by Eamonn Andrews, and in 1966, his"
"John Creasey John Creasey MBE (17 September 1908 – 9 June 1973) was an English crime and science fiction writer who wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms. He created several characters which are now famous, such as The Toff (The Honourable Richard Rollison), Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, Inspector Roger West, The Baron (John Mannering), Doctor Emmanuel Cellini and Doctor Stanislaus Alexander Palfrey. The most popular of these was Gideon of Scotland Yard, who was the basis for the television series ""Gideon's Way"" and for the John Ford movie ""Gideon of Scotland Yard"" (1958), also"
"Barry Prudom, He's coming for you with his gun, Barry Prudom, Barry Prudom, He's Public Enemy number one"". Barry Prudom Barry Peter Prudom (18 October 1944 – 4 July 1982) was an English electrician and multiple murderer, known as The Phantom in the Forest, who became the subject of a police manhunt and what was at the time the largest armed police operation Great Britain had ever seen, involving 12 police forces. Prudom became a fugitive after killing PC David Haigh on 17 June 1982. Before being captured he killed twice more, shooting civilian George Luckett on 23 June 1982"
"initially begun by the James Bond stories, Haggard was considered by most critics to be at the very top of the field. William Haggard William Haggard (11 August 1907 – 27 October 1993) was the pseudonym of Richard Henry Michael Clayton, an English civil servant and writer of fictional spy thrillers. He was born in Croydon. His books were set in the 1960s through the 1980s. Like C. P. Snow, he was a quintessentially British establishment figure who had been a civil servant in India, and his books vigorously put forth his perhaps idiosyncratic points of view. The principal character"
"a seemingly gormless television executive on CBC's ""Made in Canada"". Chas Lawther Charles ""Chas"" Lawther is a British-born Canadian actor, comedian and writer. Lawther came to local prominence in Toronto when in the 1980s he created the character of Chuck The Security Guard for CFMT-TV's ""The All-Night Show"", on the ostensible premise that as the station's night security he would be allowed to use the broadcast facilities to play classic television shows, short films and music videos between sign-off and 6 a.m. Lawther and his comedy partner Suzette Couture formed the comedy duo Joined at the Hip, regularly playing comedy"
"Snoddy Snoddy was a six-part Scottish television sitcom, written and created by Johnny Crawford, that first broadcast on BBC One Scotland on 13 March 2002. The series, which aired at 10:35pm on Wednesdays, starred Gregor Fisher of ""Rab C Nesbitt"" fame as DCI Samuel J. Snoddy, the head of Scotland's Elite Crime Squad, who is obsessed with spending more time playing golf abroad rather than fighting crimes. Only a single series of six episodes was broadcast, and the series was never shown outside of Scotland. The series was regarded as unsuccessful and was axed by BBC bosses following poor ratings."
"to Death"" (1932), ""Trooper O'Neill"" (1932), and ""No Escape"" (1936). Born in Kingston upon Thames in 1888, he married Dora Mary Hill, had one son and two daughters while living at The Great Quarry, Guildford. Before full-time writing, he worked in journalism and publishing. He died at Aldershot in 1969, aged 80. His complete works include novels, plays, novelizations, short stories, non-fiction, anthologies, collections, films, editing, even an early 1921 Children's News sci-fi submission. Featured characters include Inspector McLean (inspired Inspector McLean Library from D. C. Thomson*19, like Agatha Christie Mystery Collection republished by Bantam Dell*20), spy catcher Q33 Trelawney,"
"translated. 1. My Dear Wilkinson, 2005, 2. The Laughing Thief, 2005, 3. 7 days to die, 2006, 4. The Black Moon, 2007, 5. Jade, 2008, 6. Kidnapping, 2009, 7. Elementary, My Dear Clifton, Clifton (comics) Clifton is a Franco-Belgian comics series in the humorous spy-genre, featuring the exploits of Colonel Sir Harold Wilberforce Clifton. It was created by Raymond Macherot in 1959, and has since passed on to other artists and writers. Over the fifty years of publication of the Clifton series, approximately twenty albums and twenty smaller stories have been published, totalling about 800 pages. A British colonel, retired"
"aged just 14, he was offered a job by Marshall. Drummond died in around 1905 from tuberculosis, aged 19. Other associates included Derek ""Splash"" Page of the ""Daily Radio""; Ruff Hanson, a tough American investigator (both created by Gwyn Evans), and Blake's friends at Scotland Yard: Chief Detective Inspector Lennard, Detective Inspector Coutts, and Superintendent Venner. In 1905, Blake's bustling housekeeper Mrs Bardell (created by William Murray Graydon, who also created Pedro the bloodhound), was introduced and remained until the end. Her misuse of the English language was legendary in stories – she was a gifted cook and would always"
"serial consisting of four 30 minute episodes. Cal MacAninch starred as Fin. The Blackhouse The Blackhouse is the first novel of The Lewis Trilogy by the Scottish writer Peter May. A suspense thriller, the action takes place mostly on the remote and weather-beaten Isle of Lewis off the coast of northern Scotland. The protagonist, Detective Inspector Finlay Macleod (known as Fin), a native of the island, is sent from his Edinburgh police station to investigate the murder of a man who, it transpires, was the bully at Fin’s school. The ""modus operandi"" of the crime resembles a murder that Fin"
"Reform (Scotland) Act 2012"", created a single Police Service of Scotland—known as Police Scotland—with effect from 1 April 2013. This act merged the eight regional police forces in Scotland (including Strathclyde Police), together with the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency, into a single service covering the whole of Scotland. The force was portrayed in the television series ""Taggart"". The force was created on 16 May 1975 as part of the restructuring of local government in Scotland. The police area matched the boundaries of the new Strathclyde Regional Council, which was broken up on 1 April 1996. It was formed"
"Clifton (comics) Clifton is a Franco-Belgian comics series in the humorous spy-genre, featuring the exploits of Colonel Sir Harold Wilberforce Clifton. It was created by Raymond Macherot in 1959, and has since passed on to other artists and writers. Over the fifty years of publication of the Clifton series, approximately twenty albums and twenty smaller stories have been published, totalling about 800 pages. A British colonel, retired from MI5, though sometimes still active for the British government, Clifton functions as an amateur sleuth, and his phlegmatic approach to stress leads to humorous situations. Harold Clifton lives in Puddington, near London,"
"has a relationship, continues to be poor. Hamish is very attached to his pets, first his dog Towser, then in later books his dog Lugs (Scots for ""ears"") and a ""domesticated"" wildcat named Sonsie (Scots for ""cheeky""). Hamish is tall and thin. He has hazel eyes and long eyelashes and fiery red hair. The fictional village of Lochdubh is set in the real county of Sutherland. Although Lochdubh and the neighbouring town of Strathbane are fictional places, the series refers to real Scottish towns such as Dornoch, Dingwall and Inverness. In an interview, the author recalls, The Hamish Macbeth books"
"accepts the burden of his decision to leave his family for political exploration, Macduff's actions can be justified. On screen Macduff has been portrayed by, Macduff (Macbeth) Lord Macduff, the Thane of Fife, is a character in William Shakespeare's ""Macbeth"" (c.1603–1607). Macduff plays a pivotal role in the play: he suspects Macbeth of regicide and eventually kills Macbeth in the final act. He can be seen as the avenging hero who helps save Scotland from Macbeth's tyranny in the play. The character is first known from ""Chronica Gentis Scotorum"" (late 14th century) and ""Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland"" (early 15th century)."