By Molly Whittington-Egan
ISBN-10: 1906476470
ISBN-13: 9781906476472
This medley of Scottish Murders doesn't care for the despicable or the incomprehensible global of serial and psychopathic crimes, yet concentrates at the extra extraordinary and Gothic whodunnits, a few of them recognized, a few now not so. the entire bankruptcy checklist is: The Misted Mountain, The Arran Case, 1889; The German Tea Planter, Broughty Ferry, 1912; The past due Mr Toad, The Musselburgh Case, 1911; 'Oh, Loch Maree!', William Laurie King, Edinburgh, 1924; The working woman, Christina Gilmour, 1843; The traveling guy, Hugh Macleod, 1830; The bare 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 ducks, the Saunders Case, 1913; The French Schoolmaster's spouse, Eugene Marie Chantrelle, 1878; The Ice-Field, the |Arran Stowaways,1868; The Toad within the Tunnel, The Garvie Case, 1968; Bible John, the Barrowland Ballroom Killings, 1968-9; Jock the Ripper, William Henry Bury,...
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At this stage, from any normal vantage point, Rose was at risk only of being a victim of theft. The two ‘chums’ enjoyed their trip to Arran, and arranged to return the following day for a longer stay. It was the Glasgow Fair week and most rooms were taken, but lodgings of a sort had been found by Laurie at Mrs Esther Walker’s, in the village of Invercloy, Brodick. A Mrs Shaw had brought him to her. She could offer them a wooden outhouse, a ‘lie-to’ attached, but with no access to the main house, and with its own door.
This year, he was actually on the Ivanhoe when Rose made the fatal connection with Laurie. He saw them together. And when, back at Rothesay, he met Laurie again, he could not help noticing that he was wearing a cap very similar to his new friend’s. It was on the tip of his tongue to say so. When they were both home in Glasgow, they met by chance in Hope Street, and Laurie tried to bluff it out. By that time (July 31st) the disappearance of Edwin Rose was in all the newspapers. ’ Aitken asked, blunt and suspicious.
Others writhed on sofas and on the floors of the bespattered house. Of those who administered relief to the sufferers, none was more attentive with bowl and cloth than John Hutchison, himself unaffected by the sudden malady. His fiancee was among those stricken. Two local doctors were summoned to the disaster and they called in a consultant physician from Edinburgh, but they failed to save Charles Hutchison, who, hearty on his celebration day, had quaffed down a full cup of coffee, nor Clapperton, the grocer, appreciative of his own product.