Trick of the Light
An Inspector McLevy Mystery

Inspector McLevy and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle team up in this third installment of David Ashton's acclaimed series. The year is 1860 and a Confederate officer is shot to death when he arrives to purchase a blockade-runer from Clydeside ship-builders. The pair fight to locate the missing money.

The third in David Ashton's series of McLevy thrillers, A Trick of the Light sees McLevy team 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 is shot dead by their secret agents. Who are they and where is Sinclair's money? Meanwhile, a beautiful young American spiritualist, Sophia Adler, is the toast of upper-class Edinburgh with her dramatic seances. However, she could yet prove to be the deadliest woman McLevy and Conan Doyle will ever encounter.