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Scottish Field once described Douglas Lindsay as “a master of comic crime.” Listeners should note this is because he writes comedy crime novels, not because he murders people while dressed as a clown.
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08-08-2022
A PLAGUE OF CROWS
The opening chapters of DS Hutton Book 2, A PLAGUE OF CROWS, read by author Douglas Lindsay. Hutton comes down from the mountain to get psycho-analysed, and is then called back to work by his detective inspector, who shows him photographs of three victims who've had their brains eaten by crows.
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08-08-2022
A PLAGUE OF CROWS
The opening chapters of DS Hutton Book 2, A PLAGUE OF CROWS, read by author Douglas Lindsay. Hutton comes down from the mountain to get psycho-analysed, and is then called back to work by his detective inspector, who shows him photographs of three victims who've had their brains eaten by crows.
19-07-2022
BLOOD IN MY EYES
A couple of short readings from the soon-to-be-released eighth novel in the DS Hutton crime fiction series. Hutton and DI Kallas stand over a disfigured corpse in the morgueHe and DI Kallas interview a witness, learning that the killer is planning a grand adventure to escape capture
12-07-2022
A PRAYER FOR BARNEY THOMSON
Selected readings from the third book in the Barney Thomson series. After a year on the run, Barney returns to society: he fails in an attempt to hand himself into the policefinds a job at a barbershopand outlines his iconic idea for a whisky advert featuring the Teletubbies.
28-06-2022
SEE THAT MY GRAVE IS KEPT CLEAN
Readings from the fourth book in the DS Hutton crime series, in which Hutton dreams about crows jabbing at his brains, has to interview a man whose neighbours are performing exhibitionist sex acts for his benefit, and relates a tale of being caught drinking wine up the graveyard, while chatting to the dead.
14-06-2022
COLD CUTS
Human flesh turns up in a sandwich shop in excerpts from COLD CUTS, the first book in the Pereira & Bain crime series. A series so short it only has two books in it, and so therefore isn't really a series at all.
31-05-2022
SCENES FROM THE BARBERSHOP FLOOR, VOLUME 2 / 2
Further readings from the second Barbershop Floor collection, including the Schrödinger cut, the Rzeszów Covenant, and Shag, Marry, Get The Fuck Out Of Dodge - The Best Bond Villains Rated.
24-05-2022
IMPLEMENTS OF THE MODEL MAKER
Readings from the sixth book in the DS Hutton crime series, Implements Of The Model Maker, plus the long and winding road to the book becoming a Hutton novel. Hutton chews the fat; Hutton gets a telling off from the chief inspector; Hutton gets another telling off from another chief inspector.
17-05-2022
THE FINAL CUT
Scenes from the seventh Barney Thomson novel, The Final Cut. Barney arrives at the offices of a large marketing firm in London; Barney gives a marketing executive advice and a haircut; murder at the hands of infamous assassin Harlequin Sweetlips.
10-05-2022
THE ART OF DYING
Scenes from the third book in the DI Westphall series. Westphall haunted by guilt; interviewing an artist; and sitting in church, staring up at a stained glass window of the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian...
03-05-2022
THE CUTTING EDGE OF BARNEY THOMSON
Readings from the second Barney Thomson book. Barney digs a grave!Barney cuts hair!Barney hides out in the attic, having inevitably been accused of serial murder!
26-04-2022
LET ME DIE IN MY FOOTSTEPS
Readings from the 7th DS Hutton novel, LET ME DIE IN MY FOOTSTEPS. The adventure begins...
12-04-2022
TOUCH OF THE SPIDER
The complete DI Westphall short story, Touch of The Spider, taken from the Cold September collection.
05-04-2022
THE HAUNTING OF BARNEY THOMSON
The story of the giant fish monster that was too ridiculous even for a Barney Thomson novel, and scenes from the book featuring murder! jokes!* ghosts! and much, much more. *May not contain jokes.
29-03-2022
SONG OF THE DEAD
That time I inadvertently altered history by recording a meeting between Wellington and Napoleon in the Map Room in the Foreign Office. Plus a few, slow scenes from Song Of The Dead, featuring the distilled essence of an Estonian November.
22-03-2022
SCENES FROM THE BARBERSHOP FLOOR, VOLUME 1
The Decapitated Head of John the Baptist test for the furtherance of modern art, the irony of Scooby Doo, and fake news of a mangled corpse on the rocks, feasted upon by giant, genetically-modified gulls. Just a regular day in Barney Thomson's barbershop.
15-03-2022
BALLAD IN BLUE
From a 100,000-rambling first person love story, to a short esoteric (and erotic) literary novel, via an Oscar-nominated film producer and a movie that didn't even get close to getting considered, never mind made, the story of Ballad In Blue.
08-03-2022
THE LONG MIDNIGHT OF BARNEY THOMSON
From page to screen, the tortuous journey of The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson into cinemas. Plus a reading from the book, written in the summer of 1995, in the air-conditioned comfort of a fifth-floor apartment in central Dakar.
08-03-2022
IN MY TIME OF DYING
That time Lindsay beat* Garry Kasparov at chess. And a reading from DS Hutton Book 5, IN MY TIME OF DYING, the world's first Covid-era serial killer novel. * He lasted more than ten moves, which he's prepared to claim as a victory, and you can't stop him.
01-03-2022
THESE ARE THE STORIES WE TELL
When your surreal work of literary crime doesn't get published. And when you want to use a line from the finest Paul McCartney song on earth in the book. Plus selected passages from the novel.
01-03-2022
COLD SEPTEMBER - THE SHORT STORY COLLECTION
Gordon's dead! A two-month debate over an average joke in a sitcom that never got made. Plus the inside scoop, such as it is, on the Cold September short story collection, including readings of The Ringmaster and The Artist.