Edinburgh & Islay
When a son of Scotland\u2019s most-medieval city channeled its legacies of vice and bloodshed into popular tales, he took inspiration from the link between its shadowy pub culture and innovations in urban brewing. Following his path through Edinburgh\u2019s old taverns reveals his influence on the city\u2019s growing stable of mystery writers. Further off shore, Scotland\u2019s famed whisky island is holding its own book festival, including inside its legendary distilleries. Between cold winds and drams of Scotch, visitors can see how this Hebridean isolation helped a writer in the 1940s conjure a vision of the future that\u2019s become more haunting with every passing year.\xa0
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