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Written in Dead Wax
The First Vinyl Detective Mystery
Series: The Vinyl Detective
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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.
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.
Series: The Vinyl Detective
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The Vinyl Detective - Underscore
Some of the greatest (and grooviest) music ever committed to vinyl has come out of Italy in the form of soundtracks—especially for that variety of lurid thriller known as a giallo. The maestros who composed these masterpieces include Ennio Morricone, Piero Piccioni, Armand Trovajoli… And Loretto Loconsole. No one disputes that Loconsole was a genius, but was he also a...Paperback$2899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Written in Dead Wax
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...PaperbackSold Out -
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His first adventure consisted of the search for a rare record; his second the search for a lost child. Specifically, the child of Valerian, lead singer of a great rock band of the 1960s, who hanged herself in mysterious circumstances after the boy’s abduction. Along the way, the Vinyl Detective finds himself marked for death, at the wrong end of...PaperbackSold Out
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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."
Book Details
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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
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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