Hamish Macbeth finds that his own impetuousness places him at the center of a murder investigation. Everyone in the Scottish Highlands village of Lochdubh called Randy Duggan 'the Macho Man'. Duggan went around the village and bragged about everything he had done and said he once was a wrestler in America and an explorer in the Middle East.

Recovering addict Tommy Jarret has rented a chalet to check out reports of a sea monster near the village of Drim. Then he turns up dead, apparently from a drug overdose, and constable Hamish Macbeth finds the lad's demise particularly fishy. Deciding to go undercover, Hamish infiltrates the local drug dealing trade.

Amazing news is spreading like wildfire across the Scottish countryside: the most famous of all Highland bachelors, police sergeant Hamish Macbeth, is planning to marry at last! Everyone in the village of Lochdubh adores Josie McSween, Hamish's newest constable and blushing bride-to-be.

What do you do if you are of noble stock - but impoverished, and living in London with a certain style to maintain? One has to work ...but One's relatives will be appalled when One turns One's hand to trade - and opens a hotel, The Poor Relation, offering employment to others of the same social standing and in the same awkward situation.

One cannot live of dignity alone. The poor relations banded together some time ago to run The Poor Relation Hotel in the hope their embarrassed relatives would buy them out, but as the hotel prospered, so they began to enjoy the fruit of their labour.

Another Poor Relation has to resort to genteel thievery to make end meet - but she gets much more than she bargains for! Cut off by her own relations, pretty, dainty widow Eliza Budley must visit some other family manor to purloin expensive baubles.

As usual, the poor relations are in need of money to finance the hotel and it is up to Colonel Sandhurst to come to the rescue. After coming across Sir Randolph's daughter Frederica, who is running away to escape an awful marriage, the Colonel devises a plan to force Sir Randolph to settle his outstanding hotel bill and save Frederica.

The Poor Relation hotel is the toast of London and its owners are preparing to sell up and retire - but one last romantic adventure awaits them! Driven into hiding at the hotel by a tyrannous father and a rich but wizened suitor, Lady Jane Fremney attempts to end her life.

Eager to join the working classes, Lady Rose Summer has left behind the comforts of her parents' home to become self-supporting. But life as a working woman isn't quite what Rose had imagined. Luckily for Rose, her drudgery comes to a merciful end when she learns of the untimely death of an acquaintance.

Lady Rose Summer may be a beauty, but she's still a disappointment to her parents. So when she becomes engaged to Captain Harry Cathcart, it's a relief of sorts. Rose befriends Dolly Tremaine, an exquisite country girl, but when Dolly is found floating in the river, Harry must step up and solve the mystery of her death.