Book DetailsCountry: UK
Language: English
Genre: Crime
Publisher: Titan Books
Publication Date: 2017
Spotter: 'Gowza'
Fictional Artist: Valerian
Genre: Psychedelic, Prog
Country: UK
Real World Analogue: In a blog post to announce the publication of the novel, Cartmel revealed, "When I began working on The Run-Out Groove I had a very specific inspiration in mind from that scene. The brilliant and ill-fated Syd Barrett, a founder member of Pink Floyd. Barrett was a fascinating and tragic figure and I knew this was potentially powerful material."
Jacket Blurb:
His first adventure consisted of the search for a rare record; his second the search for a lost child. Specifically the child of Valerian, lead singer of a great rock band of the 1960s, who hanged herself in mysterious circumstances after the boy’s abduction.
Along the way, the Vinyl Detective finds himself marked for death, at the wrong end of a shotgun, and unknowingly dosed with LSD as a prelude to being burned alive. And then there’s the grave robbing...
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