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An exploration of Canadian Remembrance Day history, customs, and traditions. Who are the people who offered their lives in war? Why do we remember them? How do we honour their memory?

Bossy, impulsive, yet hopelessly romantic, Agatha is dreading the upcoming marriage of her ex-husband, James Lacey.

In Scotland, a boastful wrestler challenges Constable Hamish Macbeth to a fight. When the wrestler is murdered before the match, Macbeth's unfriendly superior names him the prime suspect.

This is the first of the Hamish Macbeth mysteries, set in the Scottish Highlands. A nasty member of a class in salmon fishing is murdered, and everyone has a motive.

Constable Hamish Macbeth loves his quiet life in the Highlands with his dog, cottage, and an unhurried cup of tea.

British detective Hamish Macbeth travels to Amsterdam and poses as a spiffy drug dealer to find clues to a murder. The victim was a recovering drug addict in Macbeth's village in Scotland.

The Scottish detective Hamish Macbeth arrives for an appointment at the dentist's and finds him dead, apparently of nicotine poisoning.

Scottish sleuth Hamish Macbeth investigates the murder of Fergus Macleod, the tyrannical head of Lochdubh's new recycling center, while coping with the bizarre edicts of a member of the Strathbane

In Death of a Gossip, gossip columnist Lady Jane Winters is strangled, and Constable Hamish Macbeth faces no shortage of suspects.

The most hated man in the most dour town in Scotland has been dumped into a tank filled with crustaceans--which is then shipped off to Britain's best restaurants.

Paragon of housewifery Trixie Thomas moves to Lochdubh, Scotland, and quickly convinces the local ladies to embrace a healthier, more refined lifestyle.

Wealthy Maggie Baird was not a popular woman. So when she dies in a strange car fire, there are five likely suspects right on the premises of her luxurious cottage.

Gorgeous Jane Wetherby has asked Hamish Macbeth to spend Christmas with her and her group of friends. On arrival, though, he's met with hostile locals and uncivil guests.

Rich, old practical joker Andrew Trent summons his kin to his remote home to torment them with a new bag of unfunny jokes.

Maria Worth's gluttonous friend, Peta Gore, is always spoiling her carefully planned singles' gatherings.