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- Brian Cox - Edinburgh is my spiritual home - The Scotsman And now he is here in Edinburgh on a break from recording new episodes of his
popular Radio 4 series James McLevy, about an Edinburgh detective. ... - Brian Cox Interview: Miller's Tales - The Scotsman 11 Apr 2009 ... and could recently be heard on Radio 4 as the popular Victorian detective
James McLevy, spent his early years in Constable Street, ... - A child is born - The Scotsman INSPECTOR JAMES McLEVY LOOK-ed down at the dead body, neck at such angle as only
an Indian contortion-maker might achieve. ... - Crime-fighting partnership at an end - The Scotsman The
department first came to international attention in 1830, when James McLevy,
an Edinburgh police officer, became the most successful detective of his ... - Best 19th Century detective - The Scotsman 19 Oct 2009 ... 1 JAMES McLEVY: The Edinburgh predecessor of Rebus and Skinner. The long-serving
detective started publishing accounts of his many cases in ... - Radio - The Scotsman 7 Dec 2009 ... that of David Ashton, has been behind several acclaimed Radio 4 series about
the Victorian Edinburgh detective inspector, James McLevy. ... - Elementary, my dear McLevy
David Ashton's hugely successful detective stories owe a debt to Conan Doyle, he tells David Robinson - Book Review: A Trick of the Light: When Conan Doyle met the first Inspector Rebus
THINK Edinburgh, think crime, think Rebus . . . but...
Evening News (Edinburgh, Scotland), 11/21/09 ·
- Alanna takes Charles Dance for her partner in crime
VICTORIAN Edinburgh crime fighter Inspector Faro is back in Murder in Paradise, the latest...
Evening News (Edinburgh, Scotland), 11/07/08 · - Investigating the appeal of Capital's thief taker
TOP PERFORMERS: Siobhan Redmond with Paul Bettany, and Brian Cox with Rose Byrne HE is the original Edinburgh...
Evening News (Edinburgh, Scotland), 08/06/08 · - Top cop in cells after big booze-up
A SENIOR police officer who runs a family protection unit has been suspended for being so drunk he was...
Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), 08/01/08 ·
- The Belly of the Beast A Christmas story by DAVID ASHTON featuring his 19th-century Leith detective James McLevy - as played by Brian Cox on Radio 4
McLEVY DID NOT LIKE DOGS. Especially wee yappy dogs nipping round the ankles as he ploughed after the lanky figure of...
Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland), The, 12/01/07 · - Meet James McLevy - the original number 1 detective
LURKING in the eerie closes, the crowded, stinking tenements and along the Old Town's dark, damp wynds, petty crime,...
Evening News (Edinburgh, Scotland), 05/30/07 ·
- Grim Tales Of The Capital
The Falls "Historians and sociologists will discover more about the city in Rankin's fiction than in a host of...
Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland), The, 02/21/07 ·
- First among crimebusters
THE DANK CLOSES AND WYNDS, THE NORTH SEA haar, the contrast between Auld Toun squalor and New Town elegance (and hypocrisy)...
Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland), The, 04/22/06 ·
- The violinist who fiddled his readers
IT'S a rather familiar story. Shrewd and streetwise Edinburgh detective called in to solve a bizarre crime defies the odds...
Evening News (Edinburgh, Scotland), 07/15/03 ·
- The return of a real-life Victorian Rebus
It's a tale of prostitution, robbery and old-fashioned detective work from an Edinburgh crime writer. But it's not another...
Evening News (Edinburgh, Scotland), 12/01/02 ·
- Book reviews: James McLevy Returns: Further Disclosures of the Edinburgh Detective: Diary of a thieftaker
James McLevy Returns: Further Disclosures of the Edinburgh Detective by James McLevy (Mercat Press, 9 pounds 99 pence)....
Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland), The, 12/01/02 ·
- Mercat Press rises from James Thin's ashes with major launch
TONIGHT, the Edinburgh literati will crowd into the city's George Hotel to mark the release of a new photography book. But...
Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland), The, 10/23/02 ·
- Paperbacks
McLevy, by James McLevy ($8.99, Mercat Press) THE real Sherlock Holmes? Inspector Rebus? Bob Skinner? Even Skinner's...
Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland), The, 12/01/01 ·
- Crime hero is back
AN Edinburgh publisher plans to bring the exploits of the city's first recorded criminal detective back to life, it was...
Evening News (Edinburgh, Scotland), 11/09/01 · - Tracking down the father of forensics
It's 150 years since James McLevy's Curiosities of Crime hit the bookshelves, but police still owe a debt to Edinburgh's first detective,...
Evening News (Edinburgh, Scotland), 09/01/00 ·
- Trophy honours legacy of a master Victorian detective
Crime Correspondent HE WAS an Irish farmer's son who arrived in Edinburgh as a labourer but became the capital's most...
Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland), The, 07/15/00 ·
- Borders police top of the cops
POLICE in the Borders are leaving their counterparts in Lothian far behind, according to new figures. An award set up by a former Lothian and...
Evening News (Edinburgh, Scotland), 07/14/00 · More from publication
