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Thus prepared for another prank, Hamish arrives to find that Trent has been most decidedly murdered and for suspects there is a houseful of greedy relatives, all of whom are more interested in the contents of the will that the crime at hand. And when the Chief Inspector arrives on the scene and his former flame, Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, gets involved as well, Hamish quite clearly has his hands full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[21],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7111","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-fiction-b","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"shipping-taxable","11":"purchasable","12":"product-type-variable"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>M.C Beaton, Death of a Prankster - Jayne&#039;s Secondhand Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jaynesbooks.com\/?product=m-c-beaton-death-of-a-prankster\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"M.C Beaton, Death of a Prankster - Jayne&#039;s Secondhand Books\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When PC Hamish Macbeth receives the news that there has been a murder at Arrat House, home of the relentless practical joker Andrew Trent, he doesn&#039;t race to the scene of the crime. 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