Hugh Munro

In October 2008, a little mystery was posed by my friend and fellow bibliographer John Herrington, who pointed me to the entry on Scottish novelist Hugh Munro in Contemporary Authors. Munro was best known as the creator of a series of detective novels featuring Clutha, "as hard as a chunk of Aberdeen granite and as knobby as a tree root." Clutha was Scotland's answer to Philip Marlowe, a tough