Huntingtower
Huntingtower is a free 149-page fiction classics ebook by John Buchan, published Aug 2010. It is free to download in PDF, ePub, and Kindle formats — no payment required. Rated 4.4/5 by 24 readers. Downloaded 13,005 times.
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Author: John Buchan
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Pages: 149
Published: 16 years ago
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Buchan's hero, a Scottish grocer, teams up with a poet to investigate a house inhabited by two women, one of whom may be a princess in distress. Set in Scotland, it follows the adventures of Dickson McCunn, a newly retired grocer planning a modest walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland, where he meets John Heritage, a young English poet. However, their peaceful, idyllic ramblings soon turn into adventure, when they discover that two woman are being held captive at a local mansion - one of them a Russian princess.
Last updated: August 26, 2010
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