These 14 essays are selected from the author's The riddle of the Ruthvens (1919) and Twelve Scots trials (1913) cf. Introd.
Contents
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.--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.
