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3 unusual facts about Dorothy Dunnett


Dorothy Dunnett

She also wrote a novel about the real Macbeth called King Hereafter (1982), and a series of mystery novels centred on Johnson Johnson, a portrait painter/spy.

Johnson Johnson

Johnson Johnson is the hero of a series of mystery novels written by Dorothy Dunnett (originally published under the pseudonym, Dorothy Halliday).

Margaret Douglas

Margaret Douglas plays a significant role in the historical fiction series the Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett.


Gabriel de Luetz

Gabriel de Luetz (as M. d'Aramon, Baron de Luetz) plays a small but significant role in the book Pawn in Frankincense, part of the historical fiction series the Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett, which is partly set in Constantinople and Pera in 1553.

Richard Chancellor

Chancellor appears as a major character in the novel The Ringed Castle (1971), fifth of the six novels in Dorothy Dunnett's historical fiction series, The Lymond Chronicles.


see also

Francis Crawford

Francis Crawford of Lymond, fictional central figure of The Lymond Chronicles book series by Dorothy Dunnett