Bettie's Books
A Stuga On the Cusp of the Orust Riviera, tucked away next to a hobbit hole in the woods.
McLevy
bookshelves: autobiography-memoir, mystery-thriller, history, play-dramatisation, fraudio, britain-scotland, victorian, re-read, winter20092010
** spoiler alert ** Dec 2009 - Victorian detective James McLevy investigates a supernatural thief haunting the streets of Edinburgh. Stars Brian Broadcast on:
BBC Radio 7, 2:30pm Saturday 19th December 2009
June 2009 - This was dramatised on BBC radio a couple of times and I found it wonderful. There is a short piece about this Edinburgh detective in the book I am reading at the moment The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective and I shall add that snippet here, where the discussion is about subtle body movements that detectives base their hunches on(p 83):
The Edinburgh detective inspector James McLevy made a good go of it [describing body language:] in the memoirs he published in 1861. As he watched a servant girl at a window, 'I could even notice the eye, nervous and snatchy, and the secret-like movement of withdrawing the head as she saw the man, and then protruding it a bit when she saw him busy.'
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