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  • Written in Dead Wax

  • The Vinyl Detective, Book 1
  • By: Andrew Cartmel
  • Narrated by: Ben Allen
  • Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (53 ratings)

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Written in Dead Wax

By: Andrew Cartmel
Narrated by: Ben Allen
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Publisher's Summary

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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