Death of a Gentle Lady is the twenty-fourth mystery novel in the Hamish Macbeth series by M. C. Beaton.

When she tries to close down his beloved station, he exacts his revenge and saves a beautiful woman from deportation at the same time by proposing to Gentle's maid Ayesha.

By the time the wedding day arrives, Hamish is desperate to escape marriage; when Ayesha doesn't appear and Mrs.

Gentle is found dead, he escapes one disaster only to be swept into another.

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