The Lost Skin (novel)

The Lost Skin
Main setting:	October 1969
Key crew
Publisher:	Candy Jar Books
Writer:	Andy Frankham-Allen
Release details
Release number:	4
Release date:	July 2018
Lethbridge-Stewart novellas
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The Lost Skin was the fourth novel in the Lethbridge-Stewart line of hardcover novellas, released by Candy Jar Books in 2018.

Publisher's summary

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart is on leave in New York, but in Scotland word reaches the Fifth Operational Corps that Harold Chorley, journalist and pain in Lethbridge-Stewart’s rear, has got wind of the Corps’ presence in Stirling.

A plan is set in motion to take Chorley on a wild goose chase to John o Groats, as far from the Corps as possible. RSM Samson Ware and Professor Travers travel to the edge of Scotland, leaving a trail of breadcrums, which are picked by Chorley and his old chum, Larry Greene.

But it soon becomes clear that there is a real mystery in John o Groats, a strange link between Mhairi Docherty, a woman from Huna, and the Orkney Islands, and the local legend of the Selkie. To protect Mhairi, Samson needs to sideline Chorley and Greene, but the ever-erratic Professor Travers has other plans.

What is drawing Mhairi to the Orkney Islands? What hold does Chorley have over Greene? And, more importantly, what links Chorley and Greene to the secret history of Mhairi?

Plot

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Characters

• Anne Travers
• Sally Wright
• Edward Travers
• Samson Ware
• William Bishop
• Walter Douglas
• Harold Chorley
• Larry Greene
• Charlie Redfern

References

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Notes

• This story occurs concurrently with PROSE: Times Squared; a telephone conversation links the two.

Continuity

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