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PUBLISHER: Mercat Press
FORMAT: Paperback
ISBN: 9781841830506
RRP: £9.99
PAGES: 200
PUBLICATION DATE:
June 1, 2003
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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.
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'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
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.
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