Edward Kane

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 18: What Does it All Mean? (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 18

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 17: They Ran from the Scene (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 17

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 15: The Properties of a Dream Under Opium (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 15

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 14: When in Wicklow (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 14

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 13: No Return on That Investment (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 13

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 12: Tiny Shards of Green Glass (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 12

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 11: Having Trouble with Big Brendan? (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 11

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 10: Luck Had Nothing To Do With It (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 10

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 9: I Was Caned at School (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 9

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 8: What Have I Missed Here? (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 8

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 7: None So Blind

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 7

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 5: But Why There? (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 5: But Why There?

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 4: Patria Potestas (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 4

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 3: The Creature Had Taken a Different Form (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 3

Edward Kane and The Voice of the Spider. Chapter 2

Edward Kane and the Voice of the Spider starts Monday. Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane

Ross Macfarlane KC on his new short story serial in The Scotsman

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 17: ‘Death. Again.’ (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 17: ‘Death. Again.’

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 16: Professional Difficulties (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 16: Professional Difficulties

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 15: Not the usual unsettled dreams (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 15

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 14: ‘Lovely evening for a stroll, ennit?’ (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 14

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 13: ‘Let me tell you what the hangman told me’ (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 13

Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 11

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 12: ‘I thought it was a rag’ (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 12: ‘I thought it was a rag’

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 10: ‘What happened after that is nothing to do with me.’ (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 10

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 9: The Sudden Thought of a Russian Doll (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 9

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 8: Not a Dip in the Firth of Forth (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 8

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 6: ‘You Have Done Evil in Doing This…’ (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 7

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 6: ‘You Have Done Evil in Doing This…’ (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 6

Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane

Edward Kane in The Hanged Man. Chapter 4: ‘He wants to see the dog…’

Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane

Edward Kane, The Hanged Man Chapter 3: Lessons of ‘Half-Hangit Maggie’

Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane

Edward Kane, The Hanged Man. Chapter 2: Three Furrowed Brows

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 1: A Bump in the Road

Edward Kane returns to The Scotsman next week. Picture: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane

Opening arguments for legal drama as Edward Kane returns to The Scotsman

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 5: Thieves, Embezzlers & Resurrectionists (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Chapter 5: Thieves, Embezzlers & Resurr...

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 19: ‘Fathers and Sons’ (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 19: ‘Fathers and Sons’

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 18: ‘Like a Lost Soul’ (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 18: ‘Like a Lost Soul’

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 17: ‘There Must Be Some Mistake’ (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 17

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 16: ‘Her Tears Were Understandable’ (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 16

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 15: ‘I Want to Talk About Secrets’ (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 15

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 14: 'That Was a Different Lazarus' (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 14

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 12: ‘Cuckoo in the Coffin’ (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 12

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 11: ‘Does That Make Me a Chef?' (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 11
‘I resent the implication, sir! Resent it deeply! How dare you!’

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 10: ‘Kill or be Killed’ (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 10: ‘Kill or be Killed’

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 9: ‘I Built the Pyramids’ (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 9: ‘I Built the Pyramids’

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 7: ‘Almost Like a Real Gentleman’ (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 7

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 6: ‘Nothing More Than a Jumped-Up Fishmonger’ (Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane)

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 6

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 5: ‘A Much Sought-After Dresser of the Dead’. Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 5

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 4: ‘A Colourable Reason?’ Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 4: ‘A Colourable Reason?’

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 3: ‘A Distasteful Joke’. Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 3: ‘A Distasteful Joke’

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 2: ‘Subterranean Provision’. Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 2

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 1: Jesus Was Just Like a Ghost. Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane

Edward Kane, Advocate in The Supernal Sisters. Chapter 1

Edward Kane and the Supernal Sisters begins in The Scotsman tomorrow. Illustrations by Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane

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Edward Kane and The Letters of Comfort, Chapter 15: A Merry Heart. ILLUSTRATION: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane

Edward Kane and The Letters of Comfort, Chapter 15: A Merry Heart

Edward Kane and The Letters of Comfort, Chapter 14: Letters of Comfort. ILLUSTRATION: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane

Edward Kane and The Letters of Comfort, Chapter 14: Letters of Comfort

Edward Kane and The Letters of Comfort, Chapter 13: The Lion's Den. ILLUSTRATION: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane

Edward Kane and The Letters of Comfort, Chapter 13: The Lion's Den

Edward Kane and The Letters of Comfort, Chapter 12: 'To Put Her Away Privily' ILLUSTRATION: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane

Edward Kane and The Letters of Comfort, Chapter 12: 'To Put Her Away Privily'

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