Shadow of the serpent
By: David Ashton
Edition: New ed.
Series: An Inspector McLevy mystery
Publisher: Polygon
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781846971938
Subjects: Fiction; Police; Murder; Investigation; Social conditions
Description: "Known as the father of forensics and a likely influence on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, real-life police inspector James McLevy is here reinvented by David Ashton in this the first thrilling Inspector McLevy Mystery, Shadow of the Serpent. 1880, Edinburgh, Election fever grips the city. But while the rich and educated argue about politics, in the dank wynds of the docks it's a struggle just to stay alive. When a prostitute is brutally murdered, disturbing memories from thirty years ago are stirred in McLevy who is soon lured into a murky world of politics, perversion and deception--and the shadow of the serpen."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Previous edition: 2006.