Edinburgh 1745.
Deep beneath the rain soaked and wind scoured streets of the city a foul crime committed in the dark of night leaves two men lying dead in a dank cellar. A bankrupt young nobleman with an addiction to the twin vices of gambling and loose women stands accused of the horrific double murder and all the evidence seems to point towards his guilt. In desperation his lawyer turns to the one man in Edinburgh who can save him from the hangman's noose.
Robert Young of Newbiggin.
He is a young man who has earned a reputation amongst the city's legal fraternity for being the one person who can root out the truth by venturing into the capital's criminal underbelly. His investigation leads from the elegant drawing rooms of Edinburgh's high society to the city's most infamous brothel and into the grim hovels of the lowest alehouses on the Cowgate.
But as more bodies are discovered Robert Young is forced to confront the possibility that his client may actually be guilty!
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Word Count - 130,337.
Deep beneath the rain soaked and wind scoured streets of the city a foul crime committed in the dark of night leaves two men lying dead in a dank cellar. A bankrupt young nobleman with an addiction to the twin vices of gambling and loose women stands accused of the horrific double murder and all the evidence seems to point towards his guilt. In desperation his lawyer turns to the one man in Edinburgh who can save him from the hangman's noose.
Robert Young of Newbiggin.
He is a young man who has earned a reputation amongst the city's legal fraternity for being the one person who can root out the truth by venturing into the capital's criminal underbelly. His investigation leads from the elegant drawing rooms of Edinburgh's high society to the city's most infamous brothel and into the grim hovels of the lowest alehouses on the Cowgate.
But as more bodies are discovered Robert Young is forced to confront the possibility that his client may actually be guilty!
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Word Count - 130,337.
A short story set in 1745 on the streets of Edinburgh.
Children are being abducted and there seems to be no clues as to who is responsible. Anger and frustration are reaching boiling point and if the guilty party isn't caught soon there is a real risk that the mob will take the law into their own hands.
Robert Young, Captain Travers and Sergeant MacIan now face a race against time to save the latest missing child or it may well be they who feel the wrath of the crowd.
length 6000 words.
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Children are being abducted and there seems to be no clues as to who is responsible. Anger and frustration are reaching boiling point and if the guilty party isn't caught soon there is a real risk that the mob will take the law into their own hands.
Robert Young, Captain Travers and Sergeant MacIan now face a race against time to save the latest missing child or it may well be they who feel the wrath of the crowd.
length 6000 words.
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September 1745
Robert Young of Newbiggin finds himself in the unusual position of working side by side with his friend Captain Charles Travers of the Edinburgh Town Guard as they investigate the murder of a popular young man. It soon becomes apparent that the victim was more than he seemed as the investigation is drawn into political machinations with obstructions galore to contend with. Charles has also to somehow pluck up the courage to propose marriage to the girl he loves; Estelle Cannonby.
To add to their problems the Jacobite army of Bonnie Prince Charlie is about to capture the city. From the gaiety of High Society weddings and balls at Holyrood Palace to the vermin infested drinking dens on the Cowgate they have to deal with Rebellious Princes', slave traders and a missing woman as they search for clues in a race to deliver justice before the guilty can escape.
Word count 140k
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Robert Young of Newbiggin finds himself in the unusual position of working side by side with his friend Captain Charles Travers of the Edinburgh Town Guard as they investigate the murder of a popular young man. It soon becomes apparent that the victim was more than he seemed as the investigation is drawn into political machinations with obstructions galore to contend with. Charles has also to somehow pluck up the courage to propose marriage to the girl he loves; Estelle Cannonby.
To add to their problems the Jacobite army of Bonnie Prince Charlie is about to capture the city. From the gaiety of High Society weddings and balls at Holyrood Palace to the vermin infested drinking dens on the Cowgate they have to deal with Rebellious Princes', slave traders and a missing woman as they search for clues in a race to deliver justice before the guilty can escape.
Word count 140k
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The Children In The Shadows
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