BASED ON THE LONG-RUNNING BBC RADIO 4 McLEVY DRAMA SERIES
...WHILE THE STREETS OF LONDON HAD SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE DARK ALLEYS OF EDINBURGH HAD INSPECTOR JAMES McLEVYELEGANT AND CONVINCING'' The Times ''ASHTON IS THE DIRECT HEIR TO ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'' Brian Cox ''EXCELLENT'' The Sherlock Holmes Society ''DRIPPING WITH MELODRAMA AND DERRING-DO'' Herald1887. The streets of Edinburgh seethe with anarchy as two gangs of students rival each other in wild exploits. After a pitched battle between them, an old woman is found savagely battered to death in Leith Harbour.
Enter the Thieftaker - Inspector Jame McLevy. With Constable Mulholland at his side, he scours the low dives of the waterfront and then sees the tendrils of the case spread to more respectable nooks and crannies.
When the inspector encounters Robert Louis Stevenson, author of
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Mclevy is a sort of Victorian Morse with a heart, prowling the mean wynds and tenements of the endlessly fascinating city. David Ashton impeccably evokes Edinburgh so vividly that you feel the cold in your bones and the menace of the Old Town's steep cobbles and dark corners
* Financial Times *
An intriguing Victorian story...
elegant and convincing * The Times *
McLevy is one of the greatest psychological creations and
Ashton the direct heir to Robert Louis Stevenson * Brian Cox, CBE - Award-winning actor *
David Ashton's writing is excellent, his characters thoroughly convincing and
his narrative grabs you * The Sherlock Holmes Society *
Ashton's McLevy is a man obsessed with meting out justice and with demons of his own * Scotsman *
A real page-turner * Sunday Post *
Dripping with melodrama and derring-do * Herald *
