Trick of the Light

An Inspector McLevy Mystery

ISBN: 9781846970917
Author: David Ashton
Imprint: Polygon
Publication Date: Oct 2009
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

’David Ashton, like Robert Louis Stevenson or Ian Rankin, is inspired by the beauty-and-beast nature of Edinburgh. His interpretation of James McLevy is worthy of the original man,’ - The Sherlock Holmes Society of London

The third in David Ashton’s series of McLevy books, Trick of the Light sees McLevy team up with Arthur Conan Doyle to pursue a ruthless killer.

It is 1860 and a Confederate officer, Jonathen Sinclair, arrives in Edinburgh with a sheaf of money to purchase a blockade-runner from Clydeside shipbuilders. He is betrayed to the Union forces and brutally shot dead by their secret agents. The money vanishes. This incident sets the scene for more foul play in another pacy McLevy thriller.

David Ashton was born in Greenock in 1941. He studied at Central Drama School, London, from 1964 to 1967, and most recently appeared in The Last King of Scotland. David started writing in 1984 and he has seen many of his plays and TV adaptations broadcast - he wrote early episodes of EastEnders and Casualty, and six McLevy series for BBC Radio 4.

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