The evil that men do
By: by William Roughead, compiled with an introduction by Edmund Pearson.
Contributors: Pearson, Edmund Lester, 1880-1937, comp.
Publisher: Pub. for the Crime club, inc., by Doubleday, Doran & company, inc.
Published: 1929
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Subjects: Trials -- Scotland.; Trials (Murder); Crime -- Scotland.
Notes: "First edition."
These 14 essays are selected from the author's The riddle of the Ruthvens (1919) and Twelve Scots trials (1913) cf. Introd.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. The pack of the travelling merchant. Touching one Major Weir, a warlock. The ordeal of Philip Stanfield. The ghost of Sergeant Davies. Katharine Nairn Keith of Northfield. "Antique" Smith.; title: v. 2. Mackcoull and the Begbie mystery. "The wife o' Denside." Concerning Christina Gilmour. The St. Fergus affair. The law and Mrs. Yelverton. The Dunecht mystery. The Arran murder.