![]() ![]() “Savile was very much in the front of my mind when I was creating Jacko. Dead Beat (English, Paperback, McDermid Val) Language: English Binding: Paperback Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Genre: Fiction ISBN: 9780008344894. He was all smiles and laughter for the audience but as soon as we were alone, he was different. She said: “He was a deeply unpleasant man. Val, from Fife, encountered Savile as a young reporter in 1977. I assume Savile didn’t recognise himself in that description.” For a start, Jacko is handsome and charming. ![]() Val, 57, said: “People often asked me where I had got the inspiration for the character. Vance, a former athlete, hung about hospitals and toured towns in a show called Vance’s Visits – similar to the Savile’s Travels radio show. Dead Beat (PI Kate Brannigan, Book 1) by Val McDermid () on. The TV celebrity with a secret lust for torture, murder and under-age girls first featured in the 1997 bestseller The Wire in the Blood and returned in two later books. The ex-journalist was deeply uneasy when she met Savile in 1977 and he later inspired her character Jacko Vance. BEST-SELLING crime writer Val McDermid has told how one of her most sinister characters was based on Savile. ![]()
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