William Brodie, late Deacon of the Edinburgh Incorporation of Wrights and Masons, executed some two hundred years ago; joiner, locksmith and respectable burgher of the City of Edinburgh; burglar and unsuccessful criminal mastermind; and the inspiration for, among other matters, Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. This site is about things to do with Edinburgh, Scotland and Scottish writing. It is permanently under construction.

Why Brodie?

The Norman MacCaig pages: tribute and resource site for one of Scotland's major poets.

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