My Bones Will Keep

My Bones Will Keep

Gladys Mitchell

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Contents

Chapter 1: Edinburgh

Chapter 2: Two Houses in Wester Ross

Chapter 3: A Visit to An Tigh Mor

Chapter 4: Death of a Laird

Chapter 5: At Inversnaid

Chapter 6: The Piper’s Tune

Chapter 7: Auld Acquaintance

Chapter 8: Married and Single Grants

Chapter 9: Young Grant’s Story

Chapter 10: Loch Na Greine

Chapter 11: The Big House Again

Chapter 12: Discoveries and Theories

Chapter 13: Story told by the Corries

Chapter 14: Story told by the Grants and Others

Chapter 15: The Meaning of Coinneamh

Chapter 16: The other Side of the Herring-Pond

Chapter 17: Following the Death of a Salamander

Chapter 18: Young Grant Comes Not Quite Clean

Chapter 19: The Prodigal Son

Chapter 20: Tannasgan Changes Hands

Chapter 21: Treasure Island

Chapter 22: The Last Word

Magna Print Books Litton Yorkshire

First Published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph Ltd 1962

Large print Edition by Magna Print Books 1977

by arrangement with Michael Joseph Ltd, London

©Gladys Mitchell 1962

ISBN 0 86009 059 0

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the copyright owner.

Printed and Bound by Redwood Burn Ltd. Trowbridge and Esher

DEDICATION

This book is for Mary and Jimmy Orr, with much love

‘If music be the food of love, play on!’

Shakespeare

‘Music, when soft voices die,

Vibrates in the Memory.’

Shelley

‘We are the music-makers,

And we are the dreamers of dreams.’

O’Shaughnessy

I hear in the tunefu’ birds,

I hear her charm the air. ’

Burns

AUTHOR’S NOTE

Not all the place-names in this book will be found on any map of Scotland.

I hope that the Scottish National Trust will forgive me for restoring their beautiful gardens at Inverewe to private ownership.