The Shadow of the Serpent: An Inspector McLevy Mystery Reprint Edition
Author(s): David Ashton (Author)
Publisher: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Publication Date: 6 April 2011
Edition: Reprint
Language: English
Print length: 240 pages
ISBN-10: 1846971934
ISBN-13: 9781846971938
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘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
‘McLevy is a sort of Victorian Morse with a heart … 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
‘McLevy is a sort of Victorian Morse with a heart … 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
‘McLevy is a sort of Victorian Morse with a heart … 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
‘McLevy is a sort of Victorian Morse with a heart … 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
About the Author
David Ashton was born in Greenock in 1941, where he grew up watching films at the local La Scala cinema. After working in a bank for five years, he left to study drama at Central Drama School in London. While he has always been an actor, David began writing in 1984. He has since written extensively for radio, theatre, television and film. He has recently completed the first draft of a 90-minute screenplay of McLevy for Scottish Television.
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