The Complete Collection of the Ghost and Detective McNab Stories
Published on 17. April 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
372 pages
978-1-925662-56-6 (ISBN)
Description
This is the complete edition of all seven stories in the Ghost and Detective McNab set in modern day Edinburgh, Scotland. They recount the investigations of the young, naïve Detective Constable Hamish McNab and his ghostly mentor and friend, the late Dr. Joseph Bell, the real-life inspiration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes. The stories often draw on the myths and legends told in parts of Scotland. The stories are:
A MISPLACED BODY - introduces the first meeting of McNab and the ghost of Dr. Joseph Bell.
THE LONE PIPER - an army officer, is found dead at the base of the walls of Edinburgh Castle. Suicide or murder?
THE DRAGON'S TOOTH - a night-watchman at the National Museum of Scotland finds a body riddled with the tooth marks of an ancient dinosaur. How?
THE SELKIE OF CALARÒIN - a young fisherman has been found in his bed dead of a heart attack. Bell finds that the young fisherman had really died of drowning. But how?
THE BLUE CLAIDH - Detective Sergeant Olivia Kerr has gone missing and Bell enlists the aid of another Spirit to find her.
THE DOMINIE'S DOWNFALL - at the Saint Triduana's School for Young Ladies an unpopular teacher has fallen down a stairway and broken her neck. An accident or murder?
THE WHITE LADY of INVERCOILTIE - in this new story, McNab investigates the drowning of an unpopular researcher found in Lock Ness. Was he dragged into the lock by "Nessie", the Lock Ness Monster? The ghost helps the young detective and investigates the innocence of the White Lady, a fellow Spirit who haunts the nearby castle.
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Person
Dr. Peter Terence Scott was born in Sydney, Australia and had a professional teaching career spanning over forty years. He was educated at Maroubra Junction Primary School and Randwick Boys' High School. A graduate of a condensed, two-year program in Junior Secondary Teaching at Sydney Teachers' College, he began his teaching career at age 19 as Acting Head of Science at a new school in Canberra, Australia's capital. He has taught in a number of schools, both State and Private, and studied part-time at university, obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree, Masters' Degrees in Science and Educational Administration and later a Doctorate in Education. For many years he was the Head of the State Syllabus Committee in his subject area and Member of the State Advisory Council in Science Teaching and the State Committee which teaching monitored and awarded the final Senior Certificates. He was also a member of several industry committees, an Army Reserve Officer and an Officer/Instructor in the Australian Naval Cadets. Now retired, he lives in Brisbane, Australia.