- 'An excellent thriller.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
'Goes with a swing.' DOROTHY L. SAYERS in the SUNDAY TIMES
'I confess to having been baffled, and baffled cleverly... a story with a very solid mystery and surprise to recommend it.' E.C. BENTLEY in the DAILY TELEGRAPH
After several years abroad, Alec Maitland, returns to London down on his luck. A chance meeting with an old friend, Charles Biddulph, now a high ranking official in one of the chief Government offices in Whitehall is a lucky one. Biddulph aware of Maitland’s talents as an actor and in need of an individual with no links to the Ministry offers him a commission as a secret agent to infiltrate a gathering on a Scottish estate and recover stolen government documents would harm British interests in part of Africa. He assures Maitland that the task would be difficult, but not dangerous. Maitland, eager for lucrative employment, accepts the job and too late discovers that it is both difficult and extremely dangerous.
First published in 1933 NIGHT IN GLENGYLE is a thriller set in London and the Scottish highlands.
John Ferguson (1871—1952) was a Scottish clergyman who wrote thrillers, mystery and adventure novels as well as poetry and plays. He is most famous for his Francis McNab mysteries featuring a dogged Scottish private detective. Besides these Golden Age mysteries Ferguson wrote several enjoyable thrillers.
Genre: Thriller
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