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Shadow of the Serpent
An Inspector McLevy Mystery ISBN: 9781904598701
Author: David Ashton
Imprint: Polygon
Publication Date: Apr 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
‘McLevy is a sort of Victorian Morse with a heart, prowling the mean wynds and tenements of the endless fascinating city. David Ashton impeccably evokes Edinburgh so vividly that you can feel the cold in your bones and the menace of the Old Town’s steep cobbles and dark corners.’ Financial Times
’Dripping with melodrama and derring-do.’ - The Herald
‘Ashton’s McLevy ... is a man obsessed with meting out justice, and with demons of his own.’ The Scotsman
Election fever is gripping the city, yet Inspector James McLevy watches the electoral frenzy with a jaundiced eye. He believes in justice, and justice and politics rarely go hand in hand. A series of unsavoury events begins to unfold; a prostitute is murdered, her rib-cage split open with a single blow, bringing back unpleasant memories of a similar series of murders thirty years previously. Dangerously compelled to pursue the killer, McLevy becomes embroiled in the dark underbelly of Victorian Edinburgh. Why would a leading political figure become embroiled in sex scandal and murder? Where has McLevy’s mysterious female informant come from? And who exactly is the dark figure of the Serpent?
A tale of politics, perversion, deception and mystery, Shadow of the Serpent leads the reader down a tangled Victorian labyrinth of Edinburgh wynds and will thrill contemporary nerve-ends.
ISBN: 9781846970078
Author: David Ashton
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
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