David Ashton ist ein schottischer Schauspieler und Schriftsteller, der eine parallele Karriere in der Fiktion, bei Film- und Fernsehdrehbüchern sowie Theater- und Hörspielen aufgebaut hat. Sein Schreiben zeichnet sich durch Vielfalt und Tiefe aus, wobei Ashton eine breite Palette von Themen und Charakteren erforscht. Ashtons meisterhaftes Können zeigt sich in seinen fesselnden Dialogen und lebendigen Beschreibungen, die Leser und Hörer gleichermaßen in seine Welten ziehen. Seine Fähigkeit, komplexe und überzeugende Erzählungen zu gestalten, hat ihn als bedeutende literarische Stimme etabliert.
Known as the father of forensics and a likely influence on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, real-life police inspector James McLevy is here reinvented by David Ashton in a thrilling mystery - the fourth in a series - set in dark, violent Victorian Edinburgh.
It's springtime and Jean Brash, Mistress of the Just Land (best bawdy-hoose in Edinburgh), is raring to go. But past, present and future collide to undermine that desire. A theatre company arrives in Leith to perform KING LEAR. A ruthless robbery is planned, and a gruesome murder committed, both of which set Inspector James McLevy on the prowl; and Jean's past returns in the form of a bad seed from a vicious killer. Even more lethally, her own lost family life explodes in the present, as a wild young actress who trails violence and death behind her involves Jean in a dangerous complex game that threatens to destroy the very root of her identity. When you look death in the face, it's best not to blink - otherwise the play is over.
In this second Installment in the continuation of the classic collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, England's top-notch sleuth is on the go again, with four more lavish mysteries demanding the master's brilliant powers of deduction. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's timeless stories come alive in this exciting dramatization originally conceived for BBC broadcast and produced by the world's foremost creators of radio entertainment. Featuring a full cast with stirring music and sound effects, listeners fully enter In on the chase with the Inimitable Sherlock Holmes and his loyal friend, Watson.The Return of Sherlock HolmesVolume 2A duke's young son, heir to a vast fortune, suddenly disappears from boarding school, and when Holmes and Watson take on the case to find him, they instead find themselves with a murder on their hands in The Priory School In Black Peter, a retired sea captain with few friends and many enemies is discovered dead in his cabin, with few clues as to the culprit. Holmes meets his match when he crosses paths with Charles Augustus Milverton, notorious for his dastardly blackmail of society women with a past. And in The Six Napoleons, a bizarre act of vandalism piques Holmes's interest. Does someone bear a grudge towards the Emperor, and if so, why?