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Cold September

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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THE FINAL CUT

3 days ago

THE FINAL CUT

3 days ago

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.

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THE ART OF DYING

Tuesday May 10, 2022

THE ART OF DYING

Tuesday May 10, 2022

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...

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THE CUTTING EDGE OF BARNEY THOMSON

Tuesday May 03, 2022

THE CUTTING EDGE OF BARNEY THOMSON

Tuesday May 03, 2022

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!

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LET ME DIE IN MY FOOTSTEPS

Tuesday Apr 26, 2022

LET ME DIE IN MY FOOTSTEPS

Tuesday Apr 26, 2022

Readings from the 7th DS Hutton novel, LET ME DIE IN MY FOOTSTEPS. The adventure begins...

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TOUCH OF THE SPIDER

Tuesday Apr 12, 2022

TOUCH OF THE SPIDER

Tuesday Apr 12, 2022

The complete DI Westphall short story, Touch of The Spider, taken from the Cold September collection.

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THE HAUNTING OF BARNEY THOMSON

Tuesday Apr 05, 2022

THE HAUNTING OF BARNEY THOMSON

Tuesday Apr 05, 2022

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.

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SONG OF THE DEAD

Tuesday Mar 29, 2022

SONG OF THE DEAD

Tuesday Mar 29, 2022

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.

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SCENES FROM THE BARBERSHOP FLOOR, VOLUME 1

Tuesday Mar 22, 2022

SCENES FROM THE BARBERSHOP FLOOR, VOLUME 1

Tuesday Mar 22, 2022

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.

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BALLAD IN BLUE

Tuesday Mar 15, 2022

BALLAD IN BLUE

Tuesday Mar 15, 2022

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.

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THE LONG MIDNIGHT OF BARNEY THOMSON

Tuesday Mar 08, 2022

THE LONG MIDNIGHT OF BARNEY THOMSON

Tuesday Mar 08, 2022

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.

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COLD SEPTEMBER

Douglas Lindsay has been writing novels for twenty-five years, and remains engagingly unknown to the vast majority of the people of planet earth. His first novel, THE LONG MIDNIGHT OF BARNEY THOMSON, hit the cinema screen, but not the big time. Years from now he will be remembered as the guy who wrote the thing. But not The Thing. That was Bill Lancaster.

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