Description
| Product ID: | 9781473631007 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Inspector McLevy |
| Title: | Shadow of the Serpent |
| Subtitle: | An Inspector McLevy Mystery 1 |
| Authors: | Author: David Ashton |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Historical crime and mysteries, Historical mysteries |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The original Scottish detective and the beginning of the modern Scottish crime novel. Known 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 - the first in a series - set in dark, violent Victorian Edinburgh. ...WHILE THE STREETS OF LONDON HAD SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE DARK ALLEYS OF EDINBURGH HAD INSPECTOR JAMES McLEVY| ''ASHTON IS THE DIRECT HEIR TO ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'' actor Brian Cox | ''EXCELLENT'' The Sherlock Holmes Society | ''DRIPPING WITH MELODRAMA AND DERRING-DO'' Herald ELEGANT AND CONVINCING'' The Times 1880, Edinburgh. Election fever grips the city. But while the rich and educated argue about politics, in the dank wynds of the docks it''s a struggle just to stay alive. When a prostitute is brutally murdered, disturbing memories from thirty years ago are stirred in Inspector McLevy who is soon lured into a murky world of politics, perversion and deception - and the shadow of the serpent. BASED ON THE LONG-RUNNING BBC RADIO 4 McLEVY DRAMA SERIES THE INSPECTOR MCLEVY SERIES 1 - Shadow of the Serpent 2 - Fall from Grace 3 - A Trick of the Light 4 - Nor Will He Sleep |
| Imprint Name: | Two Roads |
| Publisher Name: | John Murray Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-05-05 |
