On a bitingly cold day in September 1938, two deerstalkers stumbled upon a corpse, and an enduring mystery that has proved to be as murky as a Highland peat bog.
George Reid and Tommy MacPherson found the body on the slopes of Ben Avon, a bleak and unforgiving section of one of most inaccessible corners of Britain. Such discoveries in the arctic-alpine wilderness of the Cairngorms are rare but not unheard-of. What shocked these two hardy mountain men, however, was the fact that the corpse was headless.
The case has remained unresolved for more than 80 years, but now intriguing new theories have emerged that suggest the dead man may have been the victim of an assassin. He was wearing a dark business suit of
