Written in Dead Wax
The Vinyl Detective, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Ben Allen
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By:
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Andrew Cartmel
About this listen
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 LtdCritic Reviews
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- a.walker.tyndale
- 10-10-2024
A vinyl cosy crime
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!
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- Kindle Customer
- 23-03-2021
best narrator ever
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.
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- Anonymous User
- 27-11-2024
Persistence pays off!!
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.
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- Damian Perry
- 26-04-2021
Very interesting
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.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-05-2021
better than I thought
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
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- Charnstar
- 05-10-2024
Where Do They Go From Here?
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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- Amazon Customer
- 28-10-2016
loved it but with 1 reservation
really enjoyed it. unusual story line; loved the jazz content.; I learned a lot about vinyl & got to regretting all the records that I had discarded years ago! the one thing that really jarred with me was an explicit sex scene that could have been omitted without any impact on storyline. I grabbed the remote & fast_forwarded through it & fortunately no children around but would have preferred not to have stumbled across it. why don't books have ratings as movies do??
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- Anonymous User
- 08-09-2024
Life is too short
I am sorry to say I found this a tedious book requiring significant endurance. The narration is stilted and the story could have been sufficient as a novella.
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- Cass McLeod
- 18-03-2020
it wasnt for me
the narration style is lacks nuance . its unchanging tempo kills the humour (timing is everything) . the story itself is too slow for me. i wanted to like it because of the quirky plot and jazz hx elements...but I just got annoyed.
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