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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1992
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Paperback Sleuth

1 - Death in Fine Condition (Jun-2023)
2 - The Paperback Sleuth - Ashram Assassin (Jun-2024)

A Vinyl Detective Mystery

1 - Written in Dead Wax (May-2016)
2 - The Run-Out Groove (May-2017)
3 - Victory Disc (May-2018)
4 - Flip Back (May-2019)
5 - Low Action (Aug-2020)
6 - Attack and Decay (Jun-2022)
7 - The Vinyl Detective - Noise Floor (Apr-2024)

Multi-Author Series List

Doctor Who

Cat's Cradle: Warhead (1992)
Warlock (1995)
Warchild (1996)
Atom Bomb Blues (Dec-2005)

Doctor Who New Adventures

Warlock (1995)

Judge Dredd

Swine Fever (Jun-2005)

Book List in Order: 19 titles




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    A new drug called "Warlock" is tearing apart society. Benny is involved with a law enforcement effort to bring it down while Ace is in trouble in a horrific animal laboratory. Only The Doctor is left to discover the truth behind the new drug. Warlock...



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  • The swine are revolting! Judge Dredd prepares for his weirdest case yet! In the mad futuristic Mega-City One, pork has been banned in the face of super-intelligent pigs demanding equal rights. Yet someone is still making bacon and its up to Dredd ...



  • Los Alamos, 1944. A World War is being fought. In the American desert, the race is on to build an atomic bomb. The fate of the world is at stake, in more ways than one. The Seventh Doctor arrives, posing as a nuclear scientist; Ace is his driver and ...



  • Every Dog has his day... Asdoel Zo hires Johnny Alpha and his Strontium Dogs to collect the bounty on Preacher Tarkettle, the man who killed his family. However, after landing on the desert world of Santo Segrelle, Johnny's team is attacked and their...



  • He is a record collector -- a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. His business card describes him as the “Vinyl Detective” and some people take this more literally than others.

    Like the beautiful, mysterious woman wh...



  • Evening’s Empire, a Doctor Who comic strip from...






  • His first adventure consisted of the search for a rare record; his second begins with the discovery of one.  When a mint copy of the final album by “Valerian” -- England’s great lost rock band of the 1960s -- surfaces in a charity shop, al...



  • The third book in the hilarious and enthralling Vinyl Detective mystery series. "Like an old 45rpm record, this book crackles with brilliance." David Quantick on Written in Dead WaxWhen one of his cats accidentally discovers a rare Victory Disc, the ...



  • CSI meets Harry Potter in this fantastic new graphic novel from Ben Aaronovitch, writer of the bestselling Rivers of London supernatural police procedural crime novel series!

    Vengeful Russian mobsters are looking to hire members of London's ow...



  • Spring Breakers meets Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels on the banks of the Thames in this new graphic novel from Ben Aaronovitch!

    When two of the less well-behaved River goddesses, Chelsea and Olympia, decide to earn a few quid on the side,...



  • The fourth book in the hilarious and enthralling Vinyl Detective mystery series. "Like an old 45rpm record, this book crackles with brilliance." David Quantick on Written in Dead WaxAt the height of their success, the electric folk band Black Dog inv...



  • The Vinyl Detective goes punk in his fifth hilarious adventure. "Like an old 45rpm record, this book crackles with brilliance." David Quantick on Written in Dead Wax.Semi-retired god of rock guitar and local poseur Erik Make Loud has got himself a ne...



  • The Vinyl Detective plunges into the world of death metal in his sixth adventure. Expect laughs, LPs, cats and the return of fan favourites, Nevada, Tinkler, Stinky Stanmer and more.It starts with a perfectly normal evening in, except for the corpse-...



  • Launching a new series, a cast of lovable rogues face fiendish puzzles and murderous villains in this love letter to Agatha Christie murder mysteries and classic whodunnits.Introducing a new series from the creator of the beloved, bestselling Vinyl D...



  • The Vinyl Detective plunges into the world of electronic dance music in his seventh adventure. Expect laughs, LPs, cats and the return of fan favourites, Nevada, Tinkler, Stinky Stanmer and more.The Vinyl Detective enters the fraught and frenzied rea...



  • Humorous cosy-crime caper in which a feisty, amoral book dealer uses her unique skills to catch a murderer, desperate to hide the secrets kept by the yoga-obsessed staff and students of a West London ashram.When a set of rare, impossible-to-find yoga...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Andrew Cartmel has published 19 books.

The next book by Andrew Cartmel, The Paperback Sleuth - Ashram Assassin, will be published in June 2024.

The first book by Andrew Cartmel, Cat's Cradle: Warhead, was published in January 1992.

Yes. Andrew Cartmel has 2 series.