The Appin Murder

Author : James Hunter
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 1788853229
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Appin Murder written by James Hunter and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a hillside near Ballachulish in the Scottish Highlands in May 1752, a rider is assassinated by a gunman. The murdered man is Colin Campbell, a government agent traveling to nearby Duror where he’s evicting farm tenants to make way for his relatives. Campbell’s killer evades capture, but Britain’s rulers insist this challenge to their authority must result in a hanging. The sacrificial victim is James Stewart, who is organizing resistance to Campbell’s takeover of lands long held by his clan, the Appin Stewarts. James is a veteran of the Highland uprising crushed in April 1746 at Culloden. In Duror he sees homes torched by troops using terror tactics against rebel Highlanders. The same brutal response to dissent means that James’s corpse will for years hang from a towering gibbet and leave a community utterly ravaged. Introducing this new edition of his account of what came to be called the Appin Murder, historian James Hunter tells how his own Duror upbringing introduced him to the tragic story of James Stewart.

Author : David Norman Mackay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Appin Murder written by David Norman Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Hunter
Publisher : Mainstream Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culloden and the Last Clansman written by James Hunter and published by Mainstream Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Colin Campbell's killing rocked eighteenth-century Britain and became the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel, Kidnapped. And ever since the fatal shot was fired, people have argued about who actually pulled the trigger."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : William MacArthur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Appin Murder and the Trial of James Stewart written by William MacArthur and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kidnapped written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Cosimo Classics. This book was released on 1886 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people. - Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped Kidnapped (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a coming-of-age novel that recounts the adventures of a teenager named David Balfour during the Jacobite Rebellions in 18th century Scotland. Following his father's death, David reaches out to an uncle, who betrays his nephew and sells him to a slave-trader headed for America. David's rescue from the slave ship by a Jacobite refugee starts David on a series of adventures that ensure his passage into manhood.

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catriona written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trial of James Stewart written by James Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lee Holcombe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781418428280
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Animosity written by Lee Holcombe and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 250 years speculation has swirled as to the true murderer of Colin Campbell, and whether James Stewart, hanged as an accessory, really was part of a conspiracy that might have ignited rebellion in Scotland. The rivalry between the Campbell and Stewart clans was connected to the political and religious fires that had already engulfed Britain the fourth Jacobite rebellion had been extinguished with the blood of thousands of Highlanders only six years before the two bullets pierced Colin's back in 1752 and one newspaper said the "ancient animosity" between the clans was likely to resume because of the crime. But that prediction was wrong, and the public display of James's body until the bones blew down was just the most gruesome of policies and events that quelled and finally transformed Scotland. The "Appin murder" figures in the novels of Robert Louis Stevenson and elsewhere is rendered as bad history, propaganda, and myth. Dr. Holcombe's definitive volume a 20-year project drawing on nearly 500 sources illuminates tales of buried treasure, shooting matches, spies, treachery and exile, but more importantly solves the murder and tells the story of one society in its death throes and another

Author : Sharyn McCrumb
Publisher : RosettaBooks
ISBN 13 : 0795311818
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bimbos of the Death Sun written by Sharyn McCrumb and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sci-fi convention gets a dose of true crime in this Edgar Award-winning mystery by the New York Times bestselling author of the Ballad novels. When Virginia Tech professor James Owen Mega wrote a fictional account of his real-life research, he hardly expected it to get published. But when a publisher changed the title of his novel to Bimbos of the Death Sun, James—under the pen name Jay Omega—becomes an overnight sci-fi star. Invited to the annual fan convention Rubicon, James is both a fish out of water and a Guest of Honor among the Trekkies and sword-wielding cosplayers. But he’s not the only VIP at the overrun hotel. Revered fantasy author Appin Dungannon never misses a Rubicon—or a chance to belittle his legions of devotees. But when Dungannon turns up dead, police wonder if a die-hard fan finally turned to murder. As the list of suspects grows and hucksters hunt for the victim’s autograph, James devises an ingenious way to catch a killer.

Author : Seamus Carney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912476190
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Appin Murder written by Seamus Carney and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the mysterious murder of Colin Campbell of Glenure.