 The murder inspired events in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novel "Kidnapped".On 14 May 1752, Colin Roy Campbell of Glenure, 44, the government-appointed Factor to the forfeited lands of the Clan Stewart of Appin in north Argyllshire, Scotland, was shot in the back by a sniper in the wood of Lettermore near Duror.The search for the killer targeted the local clan, the Jacobite Stewarts of Appin, who had recently suffered evictions on Campbell's orders.