A Large Measure of Snow: a tale from Kinloch

Denzil Meyrick is the author of the DCI Daley series of books set in the fictional town of Kinloch. H has also published a number of short stories and shorter books, some of which involve characters from the main series. In A large measure of Snow, Meyrick provides the reader with an amusing tall story based on the exploits of Sandy Hoynes, the skipper of the Girl Maggie and Hamish, his first mate.

It is December 1967 and the town of Kinloch is experiencing a series of heavy snow storms, so much so that the town has been cut off from the rest of Scotland and supplies are running low. When the decision is made for some of the fishing boats to venture through snow storms to Girvan for relief supplies, a jounalist asks to join the expedition in order to write an article about this daring journey. The problem is that the journalist is female and Hoynes strongly believes the superstition that women aboard a boat are bad luck.

This is the story of that fateful journey which includes an encounter with large lobsters, a Viking ship from the past and a seagull watching over the boat on its dangerous voyage. A fun story that helps explain more of the character of Hamish who features in the DCI Daley novels.