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A Trick of the Light: The Third Inspector McLevy Mystery

by David Ashton

ISBN: 9781846970917
Imprint: Polygon
Publication Date: Oct 2009
Format: Paperback (eBook also available)
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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'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

The third in David Ashton’s series of McLevy thrillers, A 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 is shot dead by their secret agents. Who are they and where is Sinclair’s money? Meanwhile, a beautiful young American spiritualist, Sophia Adler, is the toast of upper-class Edinburgh with her dramatic séances. However, she could yet prove to be the deadliest woman McLevy and Conan Doyle will ever encounter.

Click here to find out more about David Ashton, and  to view an interview with him about his work. Read an article about the creation of Inspector James McLevy by author David Ashton.

David Ashton was born in Greenock in 1941. He studied at Central Drama School, London, from 1964 to 1967. 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 seven McLevy series for BBC Radio 4. For more information on the multitalented David go to www.david-ashton.co.uk.

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