Wicked Men and Fools

by Osborne, Brian D.; Armstrong, Ronald

• ISBN13: 9781841581002
• ISBN10: 1841581003
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Birlinn Ltd

Table of Contents

Foreword	1	(347)
The Criminal Mind
Introduction	5	(4)
Incident of the Letter from Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	9	(5)
Robert Louis Stevension
McPherson's Farewell	14	(2)
Robert Burns
`The Sea-Cook' from Treasure Island	16	(5)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Hook or Me This Time From Peter and Wendy	21	(9)
J. M. Barrie
Mr Toad from The Wind in the Willows	30	(11)
Kenneth Grahame
`A Civil War?' from Memorials of his Time	41	(3)
Henry Cockburn
`Saki' (Hector Hugh Munro): Sredni Vashtar from Short Stories of Saki	44	(5)
Treason, Feud and Foray
Introduction	49	(5)
``The Black Dinner' from Tales of a Grandfather	54	(3)
Walter Scott
Johnie Armstrang from Walter Scott: Ministrelsy of the Scottish Border
Anonymous	57	(7)
The Murder of Rizzio	64	(22)
Patrick Ruthven
'The Murder of Darnley' from Traditions of Edinburgh	86	(3)
Robert Chambers
The Bonnie House o'Airlie
Anonymous	89	(3)
The Tears of Scotland	92	(3)
Tobias Smollett
The Adventure of the Spectacled Roadman from The Thirty-Nine Steps	95	(9)
John Buchan
The Bloody Deed
Introduction	104	(3)
Edward
Anonymous	107	(3)
'The Appin Murder' from Kidnapped	110	(5)
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Body Snatchers' from Burke and Hare	115	(6)
William Roughead
'A Highland Clearance' from Gloomy Memories of the Highlands	121	(4)
Donald MacLeod
Heaven Knows	125	(2)
Janet Hamilton
'Ancient Murder' from The Dark of Summer	127	(10)
Eric Linklater
Catch The Thief!
Introduction	137	(4)
The Deil's Awa' Wi' th'Exciseman and 'Burns and the Smugglers'	141	(3)
Robert Burns
'Scott's Smugglers' from The Heart of Midlothian and Guy Mannering	144	(9)
Walter Scott
Antique Smith from The Riddle of the Ruthvens and Other Studies	153	(18)
William Roughead
Desperate Characters from John Macnab	171	(12)
John Buchan
Para Handy - Poacher from The Complete Para Handy	183	(5)
Neil Munro
Poaching 'In Excelsis'	188	(2)
G. K. Menzies
Detection
Introduction	190	(3)
'The Beachdair' from The New Road	193	(20)
Neil Munro
The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes	213	(18)
Arthur Conan Doyle
'Three Thief-Catchers' from The Looker-On	231	(6)
Neil Munro
'An Artistic Murder' from Five Red Herrings	237	(19)
Dorothy L. Sayers
'Richard Crookback' from The Daughter of Time	256	(21)
Josephine Tey
Concrete Evidence from A Good Hanging	277	(17)
Ian Rankin
Judgement
Introduction	294	(4)
'Bartoline Saddletree' from The Heart of Midlothian	298	(5)
Walter Scott
'The Strange Conduct of Lord Grange' from Traditions of Edinburgh	303	(9)
Robert Chambers
Lord Advocate Prestongrange from Catriona	312	(9)
Robert Louis Stevenson
'Judges and Judgements' from The Social Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century	321	(6)
Henry Grey Graham
'The Scottish Bench' from Memorials of His Time	327	(8)
Henry Cockburn
In the Matter of the Hanging of Duncan Jopp from Weir of Hermiston	335	(13)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Acknowledgments	348