NEVER MISS AN ISSUE!

Sign up to receive our monthly newsletter.

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
  • This field is hidden when viewing the form

ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Mercat Press

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781841830506

RRP: £9.99

PAGES: 200

PUBLICATION DATE:
June 1, 2003

BUY THIS BOOK

As an Amazon Associate and Bookshop.org affiliate we earn from qualifying purchases.

The McGovan Casebook: Experiences of a Detective in Victorian Edinburgh

James McGovan

In the 1870s, there appeared a series of volumes purporting to be the auto-biographical writings of an Edinburgh policeman, James McGovan. Doubtless, inspired by McLevy, Honeyman created a character who can lay claim to being one of the first detectives in crime fiction. James McGovan walks the same Edinburgh beat as his real-life predecessor, shares his dry sense of humour and, like McLevy, never fails to get a conviction. The books will almost certainly have been known to the young Arthur Conan Doyle, who was a student in Edinburgh at the time and published his first Sherlock Holmes story in 1887.

Reviews of The McGovan Casebook: Experiences of a Detective in Victorian Edinburgh

'A master storyteller…' The Distict Messenger ' McGovan's tales are filled with wisdom and black humour which stand the test of time' Quintin Jardine in Evening News

Share this

James McGovan

James McGovan was the pen-name of William Crawford Honeyman, who was born in 1845 and died in 1919. He was a professional violinist, and published a number of books on the instrument under his own name.