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QC and author Ross Macfarlane
Edward Kane and the Parlour Maid Murderer is the debut novel from Ross Macfarlane, QC, a featured author at this year s Aye Write literary festival. ​
Already well known to readers of ​the Evening News and ​The Scotsman​, Macfarlane introduced Kane ​and ​Mr Horse in a series of ​short stories in the papers and reveals that the origins of his unlikely double-act lie in his love of Charles Dickens.
The Senior Advocate, who lives in the New Town, recalls, I was researching a story about the visit of Charles Dickens to Edinburgh in 1841​ ​and discovered he had visited the Advocates Library where I was based and had dinner with his friend​, ​Patrick Robertson, in a house just across the way from where I live. It struck me Edinburgh would be a fabulous setting for a 19th ​century murder mystery. Not only that, I thought it would be fun to incorporate a murder trial set in the period. I say ‘fun’, but remember, in tho ....

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