S R Crockett: 12 books

Samuel Rutherford Crockett who published under the name "S. R. Crockett", was a Scottish novelist. Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Contents Patsy (1912) Red Cap Tales (1904) The Black Douglas (1899) Joan of the Sword Hand (1900) Bog-Myrtle and Peat (1896) Red Axe (1898) The...

Contents The Two Drovers  By Sir Walter Scott  Mr. Deuceace  By W. M. Thackeray  The Brothers  Edward Bulmer Lytton  Doctor Manette's Manuscript  By Charles Dickens  The Caldron of Oil  By Wilkie Collins  The Burial of the Tithe  By Samuel...

Written by S. R. Crockett in 1899, The Black Douglas is the story of William, Earl of Douglas’s struggle to keep his lands in the hand of the Douglas clan. With enemies like King James II of Scotland and his uncle, the Red Douglas, closing in, William becomes embroiled in events that will change...

Red Cap Tales by S. R. Crockett..

Red Cap Tales by S. R. Crockett..

Well do I mind the first time that ever I was in the heartsome town of Ballantrae. My father seldom went thither, because it was a hold of the Bargany folk, and it argued therefore sounder sense to give it the go-by. But it came to pass upon a time that it was necessary for my father to adventure...

It was in the second year of my college life Thai I came home to find Robert Fraser, whom a whole country-side called the "Stickit Minister," distinctly worse, and indeed, set down upon his great chair in the corner as on a place from which he would never rise.

"Aye," said Mistress Crombie, house-keeper to Roger McGhie, Laird of Balmaghie, a considerable house in the south-lying and better-cultivated part of the wild lands of Galloway—"aye, indeed, ye may well say it, Alisoun Begbie. It is a wondrous and most ungentle thing when the doe...