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Huntingtower
(1922)
The first of Buchan's three Dickson McCunn books, it is set near Carrick in south west Scotland circa 1920. The hero is a 55-year old grocer Dickson McCunn, who has sold his business and taken early retirement. As soon as he ventures out to explore the world, he is swept out of his bourgeois rut into bizarre and outlandish adventures, and forced to become a reluctant hero. The other novels in the Dickson McCunn trilogy are Castle Gay (1930) and The House of the Four Winds (1935).
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- Prologue
- Chapter I. How a Retired Provision Merchant Felt the Impulse of Spring
- Chapter II. Of Mr. John Heritage and the Difference in Points of View
- Chapter III. How Childe Roland and Another Came to the Dark Tower
- Chapter IV. Dougal
- Chapter V. Of the Princess in the Tower
- Chapter VI. How Mr. McCunn Departed With Relief and Returned With Resolution
- Chapter VII. Sundry Doings in the Mirk
- Chapter VIII. How a Middle-Aged Crusader Accepted a Challenge
- Chapter IX. The First Battle of the Cruives
- Chapter X. Deals With an Escape and a Journey
- Chapter XI. Gravity Out of Bed
- Chapter XII. How Mr. McCunn Committed an Assault Upon an Ally
- Chapter XIII. The Coming of the Danish Brig
- Chapter XIV. The Second Battle of the Cruives
- Chapter XV. The Gorbals Die-Hards Go Into Action
- Chapter XVI. In Which a Princess Leaves a Dark Tower and a Provision Merchant Re
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