The Long Drop review – Denise Mina’s whisky-soaked tale of triple murder is horribly gripping

Citizens theatre, Glasgow The novel is adapted with equal parts wit and horror to capture the depravity of a notorious crime in Glasgow On the bare brick wall backing Jen McGinley’s set – half courtroom, half saloon – there is a faded poster of The Searchers, John Ford’s 1956 western . The whisky-swilling hard men who haunt the clubs and dives of The Long Drop may well see themselves as cowboys. They are double dealers and grandstanders, full of bluff and bluster; sometimes cosplay baddies, acting as tough as John Wayne; other times, they are the real thing, meting out beatings and sociopathic

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