When Cecil Hambrough left Ardlamont House in West Scotland on the morning of August 10th 1893 with his friend Alfred John Monson, and a mysterious man named Edward Scott, he had no idea that it would be for the last time. Monson and Scott returned to the House a little time afterwards to report that 20 year old Hambrough had accidentally shot himself. But what appeared at first to be a tragic accident led to one of the most famous murder trials in British history, and to Scotland's most sensational case since the Trial of Madeleine Smith in 1857. The Ardlamont mystery, as it became widely known, is noted also because it heard evidence from Dr Joseph Bell the man whom Arthur Conan Doyle based the character of Sherlock Holmes...

Ardlamont Mystery; Cecil Hambrough; They Got Away With Murder; TGAWM; Alfred John Monson; Mark John Maguire; Sherlock Holmes; Dr Joseph Bell; Murder Not Proven