Malcolm Archibald: 14 books
Fishermen, Randies and Fraudsters
Crime in the 19th Century Aberdeen and the North East
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Ravaged by riots, vice and violence, nineteenth-century Aberdeen was very different from the city we know now. Danger lurked around many corners. Truculent fishermen rioted on the coast. 'Resurrection men' snatched dead bodies for anatomists' experiments. Children became career criminals. Railway...
Glasgow: The Real Mean City
True Crime and Punishment in the Second City of the Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
There cannot be many cities where crime could mean anything from singing a seditious song to stealing a ship, but nineteenth-century Glasgow was a unique place with an amazing dynamism. Immigrants poured in from Ireland and the Highlands, while the factories, shipyards and mills buzzed with innovation....
A Sink of Atrocity
Crime in 19th-Century Dundee
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Nineteenth-century Dundee was a tough, unforgiving place. For many of its citizens, it was the survival of the fittest, and to survive they turned to crime. But what was it really like both for the criminals and the law-abiding citizens to live in the streets and closes of Dundee at that time? A Sink...
by Malcolm Archibald
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
To commemorate the involvement of Scots Regiments in WWI "Last Train to Waverley" is set in France during one week in March 1918. The Germans launched their final major offensive of the war and pushed the British back thirty miles. One unit of the 20 Royal Scots were cut off. This book follows...
Whisky, Wars, Riots and Murder
Crime in the 19th Century Highlands and Islands
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
The Highlands and Islands of Scotland are full of iconic places, beautiful landscapes and flourishing wildlife, but its past has seen horrifying and brutal crime of all sorts. Nineteenth-century life in the Highlands was not easy. Rather than a rural idyll, the glens and moors were home to poachers...
The Golden Voyage
(Detective Mendick Victorian Crime)
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
When Detective Sergeant James Mendick is sent to find the Duke of Mathon’s stolen yacht, he soon realises that this is no ordinary case. Trapped aboard a mysterious ship sailing the South Atlantic, he finds himself in a world of cut-throats, criminals and a captain strangely obsessed with Greek...
Ancestors in the Arctic
A Photographic History of Dundee Whaling
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Dundee, City of Discovery, is known around the world for its innovation, its jute and music, and its vibrant culture. But the critical role of the city's whaling fleet and the wealth it generated for Dundee for more than a century is less well known. Ancestors in the Arctic is a remarkable collection...
Bloody Scotland
Crime in 19th Century Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
In the nineteenth century, Scotland was renowned as a land of misty glens, engineering innovation and inventive genius. But it was also the home of brutal murder, terrifying riots, cruelty to children, bank robbery and acid attacks. Women as well as men were capable of horrendous acts, and crime could...
Liverpool
Gangs, Vices and Packet Rats: 19th Century Crime and Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Now world famous for football and music, in the nineteenth century Liverpool had a very different reputation. One of the greatest ports in the world, and Europe's western gateway to the Atlantic, Liverpool's emerging wreath and prosperity brought with it a huge influx of crime to the streets, and...
by Malcolm Archibald
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Set in 1848, Darkest Walk of Crime sees recently promoted Detective Mendick sent on his first case. Disturbing new evidence suggests the working class Chartist movement is seeking violent action after years of oppression and the defeat in Parliament of its plans for social and political reforms. With...
Powerstone
Stealing the Scottish Crown Jewels
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
When New Yorker Irene Armstrong loses in the final of a television reality show to become top business woman Rhondda Manning's successor she believes her dreams of success are over. The very next day she is given a second chance by Ms Manning if she can acquire something unique for the business woman's...
by Malcolm Archibald
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
The second book in the Mendick Mystery Series. Following "The Darkest Walk", when Sergeant Mendick is sent to Dundee to collect a prisoner, he expects a speedy return to London but instead an unfortunate turn of events see him retained to help solve a particularly gruesome murder. Within...
by Malcolm Archibald
Language: French
Release Date: June 10, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: June 10, 2018
Découvrez l’âge sombre de l’Écosse qui n'a jamais existé.
Melcorka, fille des îles, apprend que sa terre natale, Alba, est attaquée par une horde d’envahisseurs.
Délaissant une vie de luxure et de paresse, elle choisit d’emprunter la voie des guerriers et part libérer...
by Malcolm Archibald
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
It's 1806 and the Napoleonic Wars are raging across Europe as engineer Jack Tarver and his new wife Bethany set off for Malta, tasked with building a new road to a harbour of refuge. However, their voyage is anything but plain sailing as they battle the French and help to rescue a British spy, Mr...