A trick of the light /
David Ashton.
- Large print edition.
- 480 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
- Inspector McLevy ; bk. 3 .
- Ashton, David, 1941- Inspector McLevy ; bk. 3. .
Halloween, 1881. Edinburgh. And the dead are restless. Inspector James McLevy is called to action when Muriel Grierson, an outwardly genteel widow, is robbed at home. Her knight in shining armour - one Arthur Conan Doyle, recently graduated from medical school - is keen to learn from such a master of detection as the renowned inspector, but McLevy is less sure that he requires a new acolyte. When a vicious murder occurs with evidence of supernatural strength, all roads lead to Sophia Adler, a beautiful young American spiritualist, and the inspector becomes involved with one of the most dangerous women he has ever encountered...