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      2015., Birlinn Series Title: An Inspector McLevy Mystery.Summary Note: The first three Inspector McLevy thrillers in one omnibus edition - wonderfully evocative detective fiction based in the dark and dank wynds of Victorian Edinburgh. In SHADOW OF THE SERPENT, McLevy is lured into a murky world of politics and perversion after a prostitute is brutally murdered. After a break-in and murder at the Edinburgh home of the egotistical builder of the Tay Bridge, McLevy uncovers even more sinister goings-on in FALL FROM GRACE, this time aided by brothel madam Jean Brash. A TRICK OF THE LIGHT sees McLevy team up with Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle to pursue a ruthless killer and pit his skills against a deadly American spiritualist.
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      2011., Birlinn Edition: eBook ed.    Series Title: An Inspector McLevy mystery.Summary Note: McLevy is one of the great psychological creations and Ashton is the direct heir to Robert Louis Stevenson' - Brian Cox, star of the BBC Radio 4 McLevy play'David Ashton's writing is excellent, his characters thoroughly convincing, and his narrative grabs you . . . and doesn't let you go' - The Sherlock Holmes Society of London'An intriguing Victorian detective story . . . elegant and convincing' - The TimesKnown as the father of forensics and a likely influence on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, real-life police inspector James McLevy is here reinvented by David Ashton in a thrilling mystery, Shadow.