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First UK edition with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. Price still on dustjacket. (smaller sized hardback 145mm x 222 mm approx). A lovely copy. The 26th outing for Hamish Macbeth. “In the south of Scotland, residents get their chimneys vacuum-cleaned. But in the isolated villages in the very north of Scotland, they rely on the services of itinerant sweep Pete Ray and his old fashioned brushes. Pete is always able to find work in the Scottish Highlands – that is, until Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices blood dripping on to the floor of a villager’s fireplace, and finds a dead body stuffed inside the chimney. The entire town of Lochdubh is certain Pete is the culprit, but Hamish doesn’t believe that the affable chimney sweep is capable of committing murder. When Pete’s body is found on the Scottish moors, the mystery deepens…” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH