# William McIlvanney Dies

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-mcilvanney-dies/739556
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 5, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-mcilvanney-dies/739556 "2015-12-05T23:19:42Z")
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### Author: ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-mcilvanney-dies/739556/1 "2015-12-05T23:19:42Z")

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I suspect this will mean little to Dopers outside of Scotland, but one of the good Scots writers of his generation [has died](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-35016267). The Laidlaw trilogy is worth a spin.

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### Author: ![JessMagic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@JessMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessMagic)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2015, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-mcilvanney-dies/739556/2 "2015-12-06T04:25:32Z")

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Sad news - he was a fantastic writer. We read Docherty for sixth year English at school and I loved it. The Laidlaw books are fantastic and I don’t normally go for detective books.