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On a Highland shore watched by soldiers and informers, even love can pull a person toward the wrong side.
Neil Munro’s Doom Castle takes you to the Highlands after the Jacobite rising of 1745. The Stuart cause lies broken at Culloden, and the government in London wants to prevent another rising. Around a lonely castle by the sea, people face a harder question than which side they support: what do they owe to those who claim their loyalty?
Secret errands carry danger through a country where people hide their purposes and choose their words with care. Old allegiances pull against personal feelings, and a forbidden attachment makes those divisions harder to bear. Munro brings warmth to this unsettled world, with musical prose and images of water, light and stone that give its intrigue a vivid Highland setting.
What you’ll discover
- A castle beside the sea Enter a lonely coastal setting where divided loyalties shape the lives gathered around it.
- Secrets under watchful eyes Follow hidden purposes and dangerous messages through a country full of soldiers and informers.
- Love across divided loyalties Feel the strain when affection does not fit the side a person is meant to choose.
- The weight of allegiance Explore what people owe to an old cause when its defeat changes their world.
- A Highlander's warm eye Discover Munro’s love for his country in rich images of lochs, hills, water and stone.
Who will love it
Readers who love swordplay, Highland scenery and old Jacobite loyalties will enjoy it, as will anyone who likes a mystery with a warm heart, a witty hero and a tower full of secrets.
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- A Frenchman Meets the Silent Highlands
- A Chase to the Tower on the Rock
- The Baron of Doom and His Odd Household
- Signals, Music and a Dagger in the Dark
- Olivia and the Secret of the Tartan
- The Duke's Court and the Charming Chamberlain
- A Broken Tryst and a Duel on the Sands
- Prison, Escape and a Duchess's Kindness
- Love, a Letter and the Last Reckoning at Doom
Who’s who
- Count Victor de MontaiglonA witty, brave French nobleman and fencer who crosses to Scotland to avenge a dead woman and finds something far dearer.
- Baron Lamond of DoomA poor, proud Highland laird who loves his hills, wears the banned tartan in secret and wants to protect his daughter.
- OliviaThe Baron's spirited daughter, who loves the glens and the sea and has given her heart to a musician in the dark.
- Mungo BoydA small Lowland servant who dreams of war, guards the castle with comic pride and secretly helps the young lovers.
- Simon MacTaggartThe Duke's charming Chamberlain, a gifted flageolet player with a stormy past, who longs to become a better man.
- The Duke of ArgyllThe shrewd, fair-minded lord of the district, devoted to his wife and torn between law and affection for his kinsman.
- Kate PetulloThe lawyer's unhappy wife, who loves the Chamberlain fiercely and cannot bear to lose him.
- AnnaplaThe castle's dreamy maidservant, said to have the Second Sight, who predicts that love will arrive barefoot.
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Doom Castle
by Neil Munro · 1901
A French count wades to a sea-bound Highland tower, hunting a spy, and finds a lady's window and a midnight flute.
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Doom Castle is a Scottish adventure of revenge, secrets and love, written by Neil Munro and set in the Argyll Highlands in the years after the Jacobite rising of 1745. A French nobleman, Count Victor de Montaiglon, rides into a country he does not know, hunting a spy who betrayed a woman he once knew.
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A Frenchman Meets the Silent Highlands
The story opens on an autumn afternoon beside a Highland sea loch. Count Victor Jean de Montaiglon has come from Paris, and the silence of the valleys weighs on him after the noise of the French capital. He thinks of Argyll as a dull and law-abiding place.
He is wrong. Ten ragged men from the woods, broken clansmen with a taste for fine horses and silver lace, decide that this lone gentleman has been sent to them by Providence. A shot kills his horse. Victor, who has fought at Dettingen and in ten duels, stands with pistols in hand and finds that the enemy will not show themselves.
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What is Doom Castle about?
A French count, Victor de Montaiglon, travels to Argyll to find a spy who betrayed a woman he knew. He shelters in Doom, a sea-bound castle, where he meets its proud baron, a loyal servant, a lovely daughter and a secret admirer.
Who is Drimdarroch in Doom Castle?
Drimdarroch is the false name of the spy Count Victor is hunting. It is also an old estate that the Baron of Doom once owned. The mystery of who really uses the name drives much of the story.
When is Doom Castle set and is it a true story?
It is a novel set in the 1750s, a few years after the Jacobite rising of 1745. Real figures such as the Duke of Argyll and the trial of James Stewart of the Glen give it a historical frame.
The author
Neil Munro
1863–1930 · Scottish novelist and journalist
Scottish journalist, author, critic 1864-1930.
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