Doom Castle

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A decade has passed since the defeat of the Jacobites at Culloden. Despite their defeat and the brutal oppression by English forces, the Jacobites have not disappeared completely... French aristocrat Count Victor arrives from Paris at Castle Doom on Scotland's Argyle coast, and soon finds himself drawn into a web of spies, deceit, legal manipulation and revenge... and he also soon meets the cheerfully grumpy Mungo Boyd... Now best known for creating the adventures of Para Handy aboard the Vital Spark, Neil Munro wrote numerous other works including this splendid tale of espionage and adventure.

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No pomp, no pleasant amenities; the place seemed to jut into the sea, defying man's oldest and most bitter enemy, its gable ends and one crenellated bastion or turret betraying its sinister relation to its age, its whole aspect arrogant and unfriendly, essential of war. Caught suddenly by the vision that swept the fretted curve of the coast, it seemed blackly to perpetuate the spirit of the land, its silence, its solitude and terrors.

This was the Count Victor's fist sight of Castle Doom. His mission to Scotland from France in 1755 brought him into this wild land of danger and mystery, where he met the haunting Count Doom, the lovely Olivia, the dastardly Simon MacTaggart -- and gothic jeopardy armed with claymores, dirks, and bagpipes.

Here is the most unusual historical you will ever read, by a Scot worthy to sit at the right hand of the throne of Sir Walter Scott!