Huntingtower: A Retired Grocer Storms a Castle
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A retired Glasgow grocer on a walking holiday finds a Russian princess imprisoned in a Scottish country house and calls in a gang of slum boys to help. Buchan wrote it in 1922 as a comedy and it is the warmest thing he did; Dickson McCunn is the only middle-aged shopkeeper in thriller fiction who gets to be the hero. Fifty-four plates of coastal weather by William McTaggart and Alfred Sisley give the book the sea light and shifting skies its Scottish journey needs.
A retired Glasgow grocer on a walking holiday finds a Russian princess imprisoned in a Scottish country house and calls in a gang of slum boys to help. Buchan wrote it in 1922 as a comedy and it is the warmest thing he did; Dickson McCunn is the only middle-aged shopkeeper in thriller fiction who...
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John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist, barrister and statesman born in Perth, a son of the manse. He worked in wartime intelligence and propaganda and ended his life as Governor General of Canada, ennobled as Lord Tweedsmuir. His works include The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Huntingtower, and John Macnab.
John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist, barrister and statesman born in Perth, a son of the manse. He worked in wartime intelligence and propaganda and ended his life as Governor General of Canada, ennobled as Lord Tweedsmuir. His works include The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Hunting...
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