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The series currently comprises nine books, all in various stages of completion:
- Findo Gask - Goblin Detective: a revised and updated draft is available for download or to read online.
- Findo Gask - Backstreet Magics: four chapters are now ready for review.
- Findo Gask - Underworld Investigations: a work in progress.
- Findo Gask - Graveyard Flatfoot: just a placeholder at present.
- Findo Gask - Gumshoe Glamours: a complete first draft is available for download or to read online.
- Findo Gask - Dragon Sleuth: eight chapters are now ready for review.
- Findo Gask - Moonlight Shamus: just a placeholder at present.
- Findo Gask - Deadly Enchantment: a draft of ten chapters is now available for review.
- Findo Gask - Sherlock Eclipse: just a placeholder at present.
Most of the characters in the novels are based on place names in the Perth and Kinross region of Scotland, many of them close to the tiny village of Findo Gask.
The Glenturret Distillery is located on the banks of the Turret River two miles north west of Crieff in Perthshire, Scotland. The distillery is hidden in the valley and its secluded location may have contributed to its early history as the site of several illicit bothy stills. The high hills to either side of the distillery were thought to act as lookout points for the smugglers.
The distillery was originally known as Hosh and was originally owned by the Drummond family. "Hosh" comes from the gaelic "cois", meaning foot.
A settlement in Perth and Kinross, Monzie lies on the Shaggie Burn, 2 miles (3 km) north of Crieff.
Monzie Castle combines an early laird's house dating from 1634 with a late 18th-century Gothic building with corner towers designed by John Paterson for General Alexander Campbell. The white-harled parish church of Monzie was rebuilt in 1831.
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