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Shadow of the serpent: an Inspector McLevy mystery

โœ Scribed by David Ashton


Publisher
Birlinn
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
232 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0857900323

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โœฆ Synopsis


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.


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