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Record ID marc_overdrive/InternetArchiveCrMarc-2010-06-11l.mrc:1049785:2457
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008 000000s2001 nyu s 000 0 eng d
040 $aTEFOD$cTEFOD
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007 cr cn---------
020 $a9780759561861 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
020 $a9780759520592 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
037 $bOverDrive, Inc.$nhttp://www.overdrive.com
100 1 $aBeaton, M. C $q(M. C Beaton).
245 10 $aDeath of a Dustman$h[electronic resource].
260 $aNew York :$bGrand Central Publishing,$c2001.
500 $aTitle from eBook information screen.
520 $aThey are still called dustmen in Britain. Not garbage collectors or sanitation engineers, but dustmen. Lochdubh's (pronounced Lochdoo) dustman, Fergus Wilson, lives in a small, run-down cottage with his wife, Martha, and four children. He's a sour little man given to domestic violence and drinking, and getting by with a one-day work week. No one pays him much attention until Mrs. Freda Fleming, a bullying environmentalist, is elected to Strathbane Council. A politically ambitious woman, Mrs. Fleming decides to make an example out of Lochdubh. She will set up an elaborate recycling center in the village--and its success will bring national attention, including widespread television coverage. She enlists Wilson as her ally (at double his usual salary), gives him a new uniform, a new truck, and sets the plan into action. Power corrupts, and Fergus Wilson becomes a bullying tyrant, issuing fines and enforcing petty rules. When he's found dead, stuffed in a recycling bin, no one is sorry, includinghis long-suffering family . . . and the victims of his blackmailing rackets. While Hamish Macbeth is investigating the murder, he is also coping
533 $aElectronic reproduction.$bNew York :$cGrand Central Publishing,$d2001.$nRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 548 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 538 KB).
538 $aRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 548 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 538 KB).
653 #0 $aFiction
653 #0 $aMystery
655 7 $aElectronic books.$2local
776 1 $cOriginal$z9780892966318
856 4 $uhttp://search.overdrive.com/SearchResults.aspx?ReserveID={A3A202CF-AB60-43CD-ABA9-95D43F165239}$zClick for library availability
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