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Written in Dead Wax

The Vinyl Detective, Book 1

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Written in Dead Wax

By: Andrew Cartmel
Narrated by: Ben Allen
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He is a record collector and 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.

For example, 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. And so begins a painful and dangerous odyssey in search of the rarest jazz record of them all....

©2016 Andrew Cartmel (P)2016 W.F. Howes Ltd Cosy Crime Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime

Critic Reviews

"The Vinyl Detective is one of the sharpest and most original characters I've seen for a long time." (David Quantick)
"Marvellously inventive and endlessly fascinating." ( Publishers Weekly)
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So many twists, I thought it was going to end three times before the exciting conclusion. Well worth the effort, but beware a little more racy than most cosy crime novels!

A vinyl cosy crime

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Not bad, but overall plot a bit weak and irritating ending. narrator did a good job.

Not bad,

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Great story with humorous moments and Ben does the best accents. I'm an Aussie and his Australian accent was spot on. Will definitely get the rest in the series.

best narrator ever

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I selected this book because it was new to my included list. Both the story and the narration were so slow to get going that I almost gave up several times. But something indiscernible hooked me and suddenly I realised that it was written (and narrated) in Jazz time. Slow & seductive with drifting into moments of high drama all the while underwritten by a steady laconic back story. So glad I stayed until the end of the show.

Persistence pays off!!

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A good story could have been told better. Too much time between too little progress

Too detailed, too slow

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It Has Quite a convoluted and creative plot. Story is Engaging and interesting. Narrator not distracting.

Complex

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I learned a lot about vinyl reading this book. The story was engaging. The characters were well written. The narrator seemed to pause at very strange times. It was very disconcerting. Like every sentence was recorded separately and then edited together.

Very interesting

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Always looking for new books, and nervous in case they are no good. Really enjoyed listening to it. good story line and very innovative. Recommend checking it out

better than I thought

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The narrator was very good,although it needs better editing. The story was good enough to keep me interested and probably want to find out what happens in the next installment.

I enjoyed it.

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I absolutely loved this. I read a lot of mystery novels, and this type of mystery was absolutely refreshing, with twists and turns and stakes I just wasn't expecting. But then I found out there's 6 more of them? How many high stakes engaging thrilling mysteries could involve vinyl? I'm just gonna have to find out, I guess?

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