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Nor Will He Sleep

Inspector McLevy #4

David Ashton

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TWO ROADS
12 July 2016
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.

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Imprint:   TWO ROADS
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Volume:   4
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 136mm,  Spine: 22mm
Weight:   247g
ISBN:   9781473631069
ISBN 10:   1473631068
Series:   Inspector McLevy
Pages:   352
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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. 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 eleven McLevy series for BBC Radio 4. david-ashton.co.uk

Reviews for Nor Will He Sleep: Inspector McLevy #4

Dripping with melodrama and derring-do * Herald * A real page-turner * Sunday Post * Ashton's McLevy is a man obsessed with meting out justice and with demons of his own * Scotsman * David Ashton's writing is excellent, his characters thoroughly convincing and his narrative grabs you * The Sherlock Holmes Society * McLevy is one of the greatest psychological creations and Ashton the direct heir to Robert Louis Stevenson * Brian Cox, CBE - Award-winning actor * An intriguing Victorian story... elegant and convincing * The Times * 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 *


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