A trick of the light
Subtitle: an Inspector McLevy mystery
By: by David Ashton
Publisher: Polygon; Birlinn Ltd
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781846970917
Subjects: Fiction; Police; History
Description: James McLevy teams 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.