Lament for a maker

Description:

When mad recluse, Ranald Guthrie, the laird of Erchany, falls from the ramparts of his castle on a wild winter night, Appleby discovers the doom that shrouded his life, and the grim legends of the bleak and nameless hamlets, in a tale that emanates sheer terror and suspense.

subjects: Fiction,  Mystery,  Suspense,  Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional,  London (england), fiction,  England, fiction,  Appleby, john, sir (fictitious character), fiction,  Police,  Sir John Appleby (Fictitious character),  Scottish vernacular,  Scots,  Scotland,  Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural,  Sir Appleby, John (Fictitious character)

Places: Scotland,  England,  Great Britain,  Edinburgh,  Liverpool

Times: 1930s