Buy this book on-line McLEVY, JAMES - Edited and with an introduction by George Scott-Moncrieff: : The Casebook of a Victorian DetectiveSCOTLAND.EDINBURGH,CANONGATE PUBLISHING,Ltd.,1975. ISBN 0903937077.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj,Bright, clean,brown paper,oval,b/w portrait vignette to upper wrap,critics' reviews to rear,black lettering; with negligible shelf -wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top edge very,very lightly dust-soiled(?),fore-edges brighter and cleaner with miniscule,
negligible sporadic foxing; contents bright,tight and near pristine.Publisher's original,plain,dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain maroon endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-xiipp+1 -270pp[paginated] includes contents list,introduction,27 chapters,10 full-page b/w line illus by David Black,interspersed throughout the text and book; plus [unpaginated] 2pp blank,half-title+title pages,and 2pp blanks to rear.
James McLevy was probably the most successful detective in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century.He joined the Edinburgh Police Force in 1830 and rapidly earned the fearful respect of the criminals of the day. After thirty years he wrote two volumes of reminiscences in which he described some of the most notable of his three thousand cases.In these stories McLevy's personality emerges strongly through his intimate acquaintance with the Edinburgh underworld and his enlightened attitude towards his "bairns".There is also some suggestion that his example and methods of deduction may have contributed to Conan Doyle's creation of Sherlock Holmes.George Scott-Moncrieff was an enthusiastic admirer of McLevy's stories, and made this selection shortly before his death in 1974.
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