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Written in Dead Wax

The First Vinyl Detective Mystery
By Andrew Cartmel
Series: The Vinyl Detective
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He is a record collector — a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. His business card describes him as the Vinyl Detective, and his latest case involves a beautiful, mysterious woman who hires him to find a priceless lost jazz recording for a shadowy, wealthy client. With danger and intrigue at every turn, his quest to uncover the rarest jazz record becomes a painful and thrilling odyssey.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for fans of crime thrillers with a musical twist, especially those intrigued by jazz, vinyl collecting, and mysteries involving shadowy figures and high stakes.

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He is a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. His business card describes him as the "Vinyl Detective" and some people take this more literally than others. Like the beautiful, mysterious woman who wants to pay him a large sum of money to find a priceless lost recording on behalf of an extremely wealthy, yet shadowy, client.

Interviews and reviews in national broadsheets;Extracts and reviews on crime and books websites;Interviews, extracts and reviews in crime, entertainment and lifestyle magazines;Promotion on Titanbooks.com and Titanbooks social media channels;A brand-new mystery series featuring the Vinyl Detective - where the search for a valuable record so often leads to murder...;Appeal for fans of Colin Bateman, Malcolm Price, Declan Burke, Nick Hornby and Robert Lewis

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He is a record collector — a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. His business card describes him as the "Vinyl Detective", and some people take this more literally than others.

Like the beautiful, mysterious woman who wants to pay him a large sum of money to find a priceless lost recording — on behalf of an extremely wealthy (and rather sinister) shadowy client.

Given that he’s just about to run out of cat biscuits, this gets our hero’s full attention. So begins a painful and dangerous odyssey in search of the rarest jazz record of them all…

Written in Dead Wax by Andrew Cartmel offers a thrilling and unique adventure for record enthusiasts and mystery lovers alike.

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Ben praises it as "an irresistible blend of murder, mystery and music," highlighting the protagonist's pursuit of a rare record amid solving a murder and historical injustices. David Quantick calls the Vinyl Detective "one of the sharpest and most original characters I've seen for a long time."

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ISBN: 9781783297672

Publisher: Titan Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 May 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Titan Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 346g

Pages: 320

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About the Author

Andrew Cartmel began a long and varied career in TV and publishing when he was hired as script editor on Doctor Who in 1986. He had a major (and very positive) impact on the final years of the original run of the TV show. He has recently completed a comedy for the London stage, Screwball, and is also writing the Vinyl Detective series of crime novels for Titan Books; the fourth, Flip Back, will be available soon. In his spare time, he likes to do stand-up comedy.

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