Despite the efforts of respectable parish and police constables, the magistrates and court officials in their fine new jail and the Industrial Revolution on the horizon, this dip into Argyll's history tells how crime in the county was just as bloody and violent as in former eras.
In the county of Argyll in the Western Highlands, the layout of communities has changed over the broad sweep of centuries. Centres of population have moved, centres of crime are now peaceful glens, but the vagaries of human nature behind so many modern crimes are also behind historic crime.
Don't draw your dirk in old Argyll - The Fiscal's watching! Twelve previously untold stories of violent crime, riot, theft, psychopathy and fraud.
Welcome to 17th-century Argyll. Just watch out for Lachie and the boys...
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