3 books by Angus MacVicar
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Overview: Angus MacVicar (28 October 1908, Argyll – 31 October 2001, Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute) was a Scottish author with a wide-ranging output. His greatest successes came in three separate genres: crime thrillers, juvenile science fiction, and autobiography. His early writing was interrupted by wartime service with the Royal Scots Fusiliers, hence most of his fiction appeared in the two decades following World War II.
MacVicar, whose father was a Presbyterian minister in the Church of Scotland, lived most of his life in the village of Southend. After attending the University of Glasgow he went on to work for the Campbeltown Courier. Highlights of his many thrillers included the Edgar Wallace-style Greybreek (1947) and The Killings On Kersivay (1962), plus some books with golfing backgrounds.
His children’s stories combine simple character sketches and exotic adventure with a non-obtrusive Christian morality. The The Lost Planet series was extremely popular in books, radio and TV versions (he was also an accomplished screenwriter and playwright).[1] In these stories a pacifist theme came through strongly. There are six novels in "The Lost Planet" series: "The Lost Planet" (1953), "Return to the Lost Planet" (1954), "Secret of the Lost Planet" (1955), "Red Fire on the Lost Planet" (1959), "Peril on the Lost Planet" (1960) and "Space Agent from the Lost Planet (1961)".
Genre: Mystery
The Dancing Horse
Donald Grant, a flame-haired young sports journalist with a bright future ahead of him, lives and works in London. Yet he remains every inch a Scot…
So, when his boss and fellow Scotsman, irascible News Editor ‘Bulldog’ McPhail, diverts him from the sports pages and asks him to investigate the murder of an apparent ‘down and out’ in Soho, Donald relishes a trip back to his childhood home.
For McPhail senses that the roots of the murder, and thus their story, lie not in London, but in Kintyre. And so the two men travel north from London to Scotland. But they are not the only ones making that journey…
Almost as soon as Donald and Bulldog set foot in Scotland, strange things start to happen. Coincidences, surely?
For who knows, or cares, where they are? One young lady from London does, it seems…
Soon, the two men begin to build a picture of the local community, and in particular, the events surrounding the atomic centre recently built there. Could this be the key to the Soho murder?
For on the surface, the area in which they find themselves seems quiet, old-fashioned, at times even genteel – Lady Mary Kennedy, for example, seems particularly keen to proffer hospitality.
But is this secluded part of Scotland all that it seems? Or is the extreme secrecy that surrounds the atomic centre hiding a dangerous, even murderous, secret?
When the corpse of one of its scientists is found hanging, suspicions about the atomic centre are raised even further.
But is the source of evil really there, or somewhere much less obvious?
The Grey Shepherds
In the lonely wilderness of Scotland, a Highland shepherd finds the body of a nameless girl crushed beneath a druid stone…
At first accepted as an unfortunate accident, the details of her death soon draw questions as things don’t quite add up.
An echo of the tragedy reaches London, with freelance journalist Shamus MacDonald — ‘Fighting Mac’ to readers of the Gazette — finding himself commissioned to investigate the tragedy.
Fresh off a hot story that resulted in the conviction of a spy, MacDonald quickly becomes convinced that the two cases are related.
When he discovers that a bracelet taken from the dead girl is identical to one worn by Millicent Smith —the mistress of more than one powerful man, including the convicted spy — he sets out to prove not only that the victim is Millicent Smith, but that her death is part of a much larger cover-up.
One hiding at its core a dangerous spy ring that threatens the national security of the country.
Probing for truth in Scotland and London, MacDonald lays out a trap for the enemy with himself as bait — and realises almost too late that he may have underestimated his opponents.
Confronted at every turn by dangerous opponents who want him dead, it becomes a race to unearth the truth before he, too, is murdered…
Fugitive’s Road
Peter Campbell, a reasonably unassuming man, who had grown up in South Africa, is taking his Bentley for a drive around the picturesque Scottish countryside when he spots a young lady, seemingly in need of help…
After driving her to the bank, he waits to make sure she isn’t stranded, only to hear gunfire…
Soon, the woman and two burly, masked robbers come hurtling out of the bank and into his car.
Peter soon realises he’s become an accomplice to a bank robbery, and by the sounds of it, murder!
Directed by the two male thugs, things don’t go so smoothly and the car ends up in a ditch.
Bloody, disorientated and in fear of the looming sirens, Peter has no idea what to do.
Should he turn himself in?
Or should he run?
He finds an envelope left by the robbers addressed to a Mr Andrew McLeish – perhaps this man is the key to clearing his name…
It soon becomes apparent, while listening to radio and reading that papers, that Peter is the prime suspect and the ostentatious Bentley was easily traced back to him.
On the run from the law, Peter’s only choice is to find Andrew McLeish, but who can he trust?
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