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The Mervyn Stone Mysteries: DVD Extras Include Murder (Leatherbound)
The Mervyn Stone Mysteries

2. The Mervyn Stone Mysteries: DVD Extras Include Murder (Leatherbound)

Released October 2010

Written by Nev Fountain

 
This release contains adult material and may not be suitable for younger listeners.

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Mervyn Stone was once the script-editor of an old BBC television series which gripped the nation in the 1980s; a sexy space saga featuring large-breasted women and even larger-breasted men.

Vixens from the Void is the reason why Mervyn’s career, though dead, still has spasms of life, like the odd twitch on a cooling corpse.

It’s the reason why Mervyn is invited to take part in a DVD commentary discussing one of the more controversial (and, let’s face it, blasphemous) episodes of Vixens from the Void.

And it’s the reason why Mervyn has to become an amateur detective. Again.

During the commentary, one of the participants is poisoned by a bottle of water randomly taken from a table. No one knows how the poison got into the bottle. The bottles were sealed. No other bottles contained poison. An impossible crime. The victim was a high profile atheist, who made a career out of enraging Christian groups with his provocative books and interviews. The whispers begin: ‘Act of God’?

As the bodies pile up and he’s pursued by crazed fans, mad actresses, suspicious policemen and mental fundamentalists, Mervyn is starting to feel like God’s got it in for him too...;

NOTELimited Edition Leatherbound - 250 Copies Only The leatherbound books are all individually numbered and are signed by Nev Fountain. Plus, they come with the script of the murder-mystery podcast.

 

AGE: Teen - adult BINDING: Leatherbound
TRIMMED SIZE: 211 x 135 mm EXTENT 250 pp

NOTES:

Nev Fountain is a multi-award winning writer, who has worked mainly in radio and television comedy. Starting out on Radio 4’s Weekending sketch show, he was given the Peter Titheradge bursary for promising new comedy writers.

He is chiefly known for his work as principle writer on the award winning Dead Ringers, in both its radio and TV incarnations (alongside writing partner Tom Jamieson), but he has also contributed to a huge range of programmes, such as Have I Got News For You, The Impression Show, 2DTV, The News Quiz, Loose Ends and his own radio sitcom Elephants to Catch Eels, to name but a few.

He is currently working on a children’s sitcom, Scoop, which he helped to devise. He is also a gag writer for legendary satirical magazine Private Eye.
 

  • Product Format: hardback (medium deluxe)
  • Physical Retail ISBN: 978-1-84435-532-7
  • Digital Retail ISBN: 978-1-84435-991-2
  • Production Code: BFPMERVBK02
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