Nor Will He Sleep: An Inspector McLevy Mystery 4 (Inspector McLevy, 4) - Softcover

Ashton, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1473631068 ISBN 13: 9781473631069

Publisher: Two Roads, 2020

Synopsis

BASED ON THE LONG-RUNNING BBC RADIO 4 McLEVY DRAMA SERIES

...WHILE THE STREETS OF LONDON HAD SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE DARK ALLEYS OF EDINBURGH HAD INSPECTOR JAMES McLEVY
ELEGANT AND CONVINCING' The Times | 'ASHTON IS THE DIRECT HEIR TO ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON' Brian Cox | 'EXCELLENT' The Sherlock Holmes Society | 'DRIPPING WITH MELODRAMA AND DERRING-DO' Herald

1887. The streets of Edinburgh seethe with anarchy as two gangs of students rival each other in wild exploits. After a pitched battle between them, an old woman is found savagely battered to death in Leith Harbour.
Enter the Thieftaker - Inspector Jame McLevy. With Constable Mulholland at his side, he scours the low dives of the waterfront and then sees the tendrils of the case spread to more respectable nooks and crannies.
When the inspector encounters Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, in the city to bury his deceased father, the two recognise each other as fellow travellers, observers of the dark side of human nature and both hopeless insomniacs.
Glimpses of the murderer indicate a slender, androgynous figure with a silver cane, which is used to lethal effect. A dancing killer non unlike Mr Edward Hyde.

THE INSPECTOR MCLEVY SERIES
1 - Shadow of the Serpent
2 - Fall from Grace
3 - A Trick of the Light
4 - Nor Will He Sleep

About this title

About the Author:

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 and The Etruscan Smile. 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 twelve McLevy series for BBC Radio 4.

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Review:

Dripping with melodrama and derring-do―Herald

McLevy is one of the greatest psychological creations and Ashton the direct heir to Robert Louis Stevenson―Brian Cox, CBE - Award-winning actor

David Ashton's writing is excellent, his characters thoroughly convincing and his narrative grabs you―The Sherlock Holmes Society

Ashton's McLevy is a man obsessed with meting out justice and with demons of his own―Scotsman

An intriguing Victorian story... elegant and convincing―The Times

A real page-turner―Sunday Post

PRAISE FOR THE INSPECTOR McLEVY SERIES
Mclevy is a sort of Victorian Morse with a heart, prowling the mean wynds and tenements of the endlessly fascinating city. David Ashton impeccably evokes Edinburgh so vividly that you feel the cold in your bones and the menace of the Old Town's steep cobbles and dark corners

―Financial Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Two Roads
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1473631068
• ISBN 13: 9781473631069
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352