The Vinyl Detective – An Interview with Author Andrew Cartmel

Readers of this blog will have come across my enthusiastic reviews of two of the books in Andrew Cartmel‘s Vinyl Detective mystery series (Written in Dead Wax and The Run-Out Groove.) The protagonist of the series is a sleuth who gets hired to find particular rare records. Along the way his searches end up involving…

The Vinyl Detective: The Run-Out Groove

Last year’s The Vinyl Detective: Written in Dead Wax, by Andrew Cartmel, was the first installment in a new mystery series (a series but they can be read independently) and one of my favorite books of 2016 [see my review]. The latest, The Vinyl Detective: The Run-Out Groove, continues the adventures of our narrator and…

The Vinyl Detective: Written in Dead Wax

High on my list of enjoyable things to do (if I had such a list…hmmm…maybe I should make one…) is poking through used record stores.  You never know when you’ll find that one album you’ve been looking for, or one you’ve only read about, or just be intrigued by the cover art of a previously…