Mrs. Gillespie is famous for being the best maid in the northwest of Sutherland. But to Hamish Macbeth, she is a malicious gossip who bangs around the furniture and clanks pots. When Hamish wins Mrs. Gillespie's services in a church raffle, he spends most of the day trying to avoid her. He doesn't understand how she managed to gain such a fine reputation. Then she is found dead, struck down violently by a metal bucket of water. Knowing Mrs. Gillespie's penchant for gossip, Hamish is sure she delighted in finding out her clients' secrets--which means that everyone whose home she cleaned is a suspect.
This book is intended to be a core text for primary school teachers in training, induction and beyond. It is primarily aimed at those who are not science specialists, providing them with an accessible and useful tool to enable them to gain confidence in their ability to teach science successfully. It can also be used by those with a more secure scientific background, to help them develop their science teaching across the breadth of the primary curriculum.
