In a novel by this author, a tennis match gets so heated that one of the players starts savagely beating the other's face with a racket.
In a novel by this author, a tennis match gets so heated that one of the players starts savagely beating the other's face with a racket. A character created by this author concludes that a mysterious man with a vast retinue of followers must be Peter the Great on his embassy to Europe. At a sheep-fair, two characters interrogate this author about a letter he published in Blackwood's Magazine describing two shepherds exhuming the corpse of a suicide victim. The prostitute Arabella Calvert witnesses a duel in a novel by this author that leads to son of theLaird of Dalcastle getting stabbed in the back. The second section of that novel by this man is narrated by the title character, who is convinced by his father that he is part of the Calvinist "elect" and is forced into committing a series of bizarre murders by the devil-doppelganger Gil- Martin. For 10 points, name this Scottish author of a psychological novel about the crimes of Robert Wringhim called The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.
In a novel by this author, a tennis match gets so heated that one of the players starts savagely beating the other's face with a racket.
James  Hogg