New Edward Kane serial story for Christmas starts in Monday’s Scotsman
Ross Macfarlane KC is bringing back his popular Edward Kane character for a brand new serial story starting in Monday’s Scotsman.
Edward Kane and the Letters of Comfort will run on week days in the paper every day until its conclusion on December 23.
Macfarlane created the 19th century advocate sleuth in 2019, and Kane and his Cockney manservant, Mr Horse, have now featured in regular serials and short stories, as well as the novel ‘Edward Kane and the Parlour Maid Murderer’.
“The idea for Edward Kane came to me as I was standing in the graveyard at Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh,” he said previously.
“It came to me that 19th Century Edinburgh would be a great location for exciting mystery stories with Calton Jail, where they held public executions, the High Court, and the different strata of society.”
Previous Scotsman stories and novellas have included Edward Kane and the Innocent Railway last year, Edward Kane and The Vinegar Valentine, Edward Kane, Advocate in A Promise is a Promise, Edward Kane and The Matter of Honour, and Edward Kane, Advocate in No Bunnies in the Bible.
Macfarlane has written The Scotsman Christmas story every year for more than a decade, as well as contributing stories and essays throughout the year.
His previous Scotsman story “Mr Charles Dickens and the Tale of Ebenezer...scroggie” was chosen as the featured fiction by the international organisation, the Dickens Fellowship in 2017.
The illustrations for all his stories are by Lesley-anne Barnes Macfarlane.
In 2020, Macfarlane unravelled a historic miscarriage of justice when he successfully campaigned to have Thomas Muir, the advocate who would come to be regarded as the father of Scottish democracy, readmitted to the roll of the Faculty of Advocates after he discovered a court document which proved his expulsion was void.