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THE MYSTERY OF THE RUINED ABBEY by William MacKellar

THE MYSTERY OF THE RUINED ABBEY

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Pub Date: Sept. 8th, 1954
Publisher: Whittlesey House-McGraw-Hill

Scotch and American mix well in this adventure of Long Islander Chip and Highlander Neil as they quip their way through to the capture of a murderer and the revelation of a dishonest laird. In the small town of Ardour where Chip is visiting, he and Neil immediately join the chase after Red Dougal, hiding in the heath near a ruined abbey. It's soon evident that he's not the only target, for Laird Morton's son Murdoch is shifty-eyed- and after scuffles and a bit of international understanding- it's discovered that the bankrupt laird has been stealing for Murdoch's education and using Red Dougal's presence to hide his cache in the abbey. Highland fling.