The Dickson McCunn Trilogy is a series of novels by John Buchan, featuring Dickson McCunn, a grocery store owner, who sold his store intending to retire. His second life chapter turned out to be more interesting than the first.This Book Contains:HUNTINGTOWERBook 1: Dickson McCunn sells his store and decides to start his retirement with a walking holiday in the district of Carrick in Galloway. This leads in the middle of a kidnapping plot of a Russian princess held prisoner in the rambling mansion.CASTLE GAYBook 2: Dickson hosts a supper for two of his protégés, John 'Jaikie' Galt and Dougal Crombie. Dougal's boss (Craw) is kidnapped, due to mistaken identity. This event has Jaikie and Dougal navigating through journalistic rivalry, a possible coup d'état, and more, in the effort to help Craw.THE HOUSE OF THE FOUR WINDSBook 3: Dickson, his protégés and a few other friends decide to go away for the summer.

The summer brings about an adventure involving an exiled prince's attempt to regain the throne. Set in the fictional Central European country of Evallonia in the early 1930s. It concerns the involvement of some Scottish visitors in the overthrow of a corrupt republic and the restoration of the monarchy.