Book description
This medley of Scottish Murders does not deal with the despicable
or the incomprehensible world of serial and psychopathic crimes, but
concentrates on the more notable and Gothic whodunnits, some of them
well-known, some not so. The full chapter list is: The Misted
Mountain, The Arran Case, 1889; The German Tea Planter, Broughty
Ferry, 1912; The Late Mr Toad, The Musselburgh Case, 1911; 'Oh, Loch
Maree!', William Laurie King, Edinburgh, 1924; The Running Girl,
Christina Gilmour, 1843; The Travelling Man, Hugh Macleod, 1830; The
Naked Ghost, Sgt Arthur Davies, 1749; The Cinderella Syndrome, Bertie
Wilcox, 1929; 'Holly Willie', William Bennison, 1850; A Tryst With Dr
Smith, The St Fergus Case, 1853; The Wild Geese, the Saunders Case,
1913; The French Schoolmaster's Wife, Eugene Marie Chantrelle, 1878;
The Ice-Field, the |Arran Stowaways,1868; The Toad in the Tunnel, The
Garvie Case, 1968; Bible John, the Barrowland Ballroom Killings,
1968-9; Jock the Ripper, William Henry Bury, 1889 and The Quest for
Norah, the Farnario Case, 1929.
Molly Whittington-Egan is a leading true-crime writer whose credits
include The Murder Almanac, The Bedside Book of Murder, The Story of Mr
George Edalji, Khaki Mischief: The Agra Murder Case; Murder on the
Bluff: The Carew Poisoning Case, Classic Scottish Murder Stories and
Murder on File.