Title: Lament for a maker
First published: 1961
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
Time periods: 1930s