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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 a shotgun, and unknowingly dosed with LSD as a prelude to being burned alive. And then there's the grave robbing ...



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Andrew Cartmel

Andrew Cartmel is a novelist, playwright and screenwriter. His work for BBC television includes a legendary three year stint as the Script Editor on DOCTOR WHO. He has also been commissioned to write scripts for MIDSOMER MURDERS, DARK KNIGHT and TORCHWOOD. He has toured as a stand-up comedian and his stage play UNDER THE EAGLE was hailed by Time Out London as 'bitingly funny'. Andrew Cartmel has had a number of novels published including a sequence of spy thrillers - OPERATION HEROD, EVENT DRIVEN and CLASS WAR - featuring his creation Rupert Hood. His latest novel, due out shortly, is WRITTEN IN DEAD WAX, first in a new series of noir thrillers featuring a seam of subversive humour, about the Vinyl Detective - a record collector turned sleuth. The high octane (and heavy vinyl) sequels are THE RUN OUT GROOVE and VICTORY DISC.



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