Editing Nigel Tranter (section)

==Death==
He died on 9 January 2000, aged 90, after contracting flu, in [[Gullane]], where his funeral and burial took place.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/602353.stm |title=Scots novelist laid to rest |work=BBC News |date=13 January 2000 |access-date=5 March 2017}}</ref>

A final eight novels were published after Tranter's death, the last book ''Hope Endures'' appearing in 2005.  According to his daughter these "were all finished at the time of his death, as he always kept ahead in his writing".<ref>Frances May Baker, [https://books.google.com/books?id=bYjqFrOCm2UC&pg=PT99 "Historical Note"], in Nigel Tranter (2005), ''Hope Endures''.</ref>