The Unnatural Death of a Jacobite by Douglas Watt sampler
MacKenzie and Scougall are back. 1689. Scotland is in the grip of Jacobite fever. Bonnie Dundee leads a Highland Army looking to crush the government and restore James Stewart as King. Meanwhile, in the dark streets of Edinburgh, there are even darker goings on. A gruesome discovery near the city’s quarry takes investigative advocate John MacKenzie and side-kick Davie Scougall on a dangerous journey through the criminal underworld and clandestine clubs of the old capital.
MacKenzie and Scougall are back.
1689. Scotland is in the grip of Jacobite fever. Bonnie Dundee leads a Highland Army looking to crush the government and restore James Stewart as King. Meanwhile, in the dark streets of Edinburgh, there are even darker goings on. A gruesome discovery near the city’s quarry takes investigative advocate John MacKenzie and side-kick Davie Scougall on a dangerous journey through the criminal underworld and clandestine clubs of the old capital.
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List <strong>of</strong> Main Characters<br />
John MacKenzie – advocate<br />
Aeneas MacLeod – lawyer<br />
Elizabeth MacKenzie – daughter <strong>of</strong> John MacKenzie<br />
Kenneth MacKenzie, Earl <strong>of</strong> Seaforth – chief <strong>of</strong> Clan MacKenzie<br />
Ruairidh MacKenzie – brother <strong>of</strong> Seaforth<br />
Davie Scougall – notary public, MacKenzie’s assistant<br />
Archibald Stirling – ex Crown Officer, friend <strong>of</strong> MacKenzie<br />
Mary Erskine, Mrs Hair – moneylender<br />
David Drummond – <strong>Jacobite</strong> lawyer<br />
Betty McGrain – <strong>of</strong>fice girl<br />
William Galbraith – writer<br />
Adam Scobie – Pres<strong>by</strong>terian writer<br />
George Gourlay – Edinburgh tavern owner<br />
John Dalrymple, Master <strong>of</strong> Stair – Lord Advocate<br />
Andrew Stein – Captain <strong>of</strong> the Town Guard<br />
Patrick Cranstoun, Earl <strong>of</strong> Dewarton – nobleman<br />
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