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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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2015., 06:29:10, BBC Digital Audio Edition: Unabridged. Click to access digital title. Summary Note: Brian Cox stars as the Edinburgh detective in nine episodes of the BBC Radio 4 series. Inspired by the real-life memoirs of a Victorian Inspector in Scotland, James McLevy prowls the dark streets of 1860s Edinburgh bringing criminals to justice, with the assistance of Constable Mulholland. Siobhán Redmond co-stars as Jean Brash and Michael Perceval-Maxwell as Mulholland in these nine BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas.
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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.