Glasgow-born Douglas Skelton is a former journalist and local newspaper editor. He has published 11 non-fiction books dealing with true crime and the darker side of Scottish history as well as six crime novels. His novel Open Wounds was nominated for the McIlvanney Award in 2016. He lives in Ayrshire.

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• 1 Introduction 82 Culture 103 We are Family 104 An Instrument of War 125 Battle of the Clans 156 The Best Plaid Schemes 187 The Tartan Conmen 208 Minding their Language 239 On the Trail 2610 Makers of History 2811 Snakes and Monsters 2812 What Bloody Man is that? 2913 The King Who Helped Create Scotland 3114 The Guardian of Scotland 3415 The Man Who Would Be King 3616 A Royal Dynasty 4017 Her End Was Her Beginning 4318 The Monstrous Regiment 4619 Crowning Achievement 4620 Courage and Fidelity 4921 The Woman with Star Power 5122 Queen of the Comstock 5323 Fighting the Pestilence of the Free Winds 5424 Woman with a mission 5625 Food and Drink 5826 The Selkirk Grace 5827 The Water of Life 5928 Great Chieftan 'o the Puddin Race 6229 Squared Away 6430 Ale that was sweeter than honey 6731 Scotland at War 7032 The Lost Legion 7033 The Deaths That Caused a Crisis 7234 Death of a King 7435 The Not-So-English Civil War 7536 Royal Blood, Holy Wars 7937 Castle Commando 8138 The Bandit Masquerading as a Scottish Officer 8339 Here We Go Round the Mulberry 8540 Building a Country 8741 The Northeast Passage 8742 Big Wheel Keep on Rollin' 9043 The Road to Peace 9144 Planes, Trains - and trains That Are Planes 9345 Rocket Science 9446 The Men Who Made the Hollow Mountain 9747 Bridges over the River Forth 10048 The Sporting Life 10349 War Games 10350 An Unprofitable Sport 10551 Sticking it to the Warriors 10852 The Not So Beautiful Game 10953 Sport on the Slide 11154 The Eglinton Tournament 11355 Just not Cricket 11756 The first World Cup 11957 Tales from the Dark Side 12258 The Family from Hell 12259 The Glen of Weeping 12460 Bloody Deeds and Bloody Shirts 12661 The Judge's Wife 12862 The Ripper Connection 13063 Index 132