Huntingtower
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2023
Language: eng
Subjects: Scotland -- Fiction; Adventure stories; Kidnapping -- Fiction; Princesses -- Fiction; McCunn, Dickson (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Adventure; Fiction
Description: <p>Published in 1922, <i>Huntingtower</i> is the first of <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/john-buchan">John Buchan’s</a> novels to feature <a href="https://standardebooks.org/collections/dickson-mccunn">Dickson McCunn</a>.</p> <p>McCunn, recently retired, embarks upon a walking tour of southwestern Scotland and encounters a poet and former soldier on his travels. They spend the evening in a small village, and when they investigate a large empty house nearby, they hear a woman singing from within. McCann’s companion recognizes the woman’s voice as belonging to a Russian princess he had worshiped from afar when he was stationed in Europe. A gang of street-urchins inform the pair that the princess and her companion are held prisoner, and all agree to join forces and effect a rescue.</p> <p>The book was made into a silent movie in 1928, and has also been adapted for radio.</p>