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- ISBN 9781068710384
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 16 May 2026
- Publisher: Hawkwood Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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"Jimmy Endicott was murdered."
Maxwell Reid was part of something big once. At least for a little while. As bass player for post-punk darlings La Plage, he toured the world with their wondrous hit single (and single hit) Kreuzberg Wiedersehen.
Great days. So he keeps getting told.
Forty years on - and now a part-time lecturer, part-time Northern Soul DJ - Max investigates the death of his old lead singer, Jimmy Endicott.
Set on a journey that brings him face to face with bitter ex-bandmates, post pandemic cults, corrupt council employees, conspiracy theorists and a messianic club owner - all the while helped (or hindered) by Debs Endicott, volatile adult daughter of the deceased - Max discovers that the secret behind Jimmy's death lies in a past he has mostly managed to forget.
Until now.
Told over 45 tracks, and divided into Side A and Side B, "Black Vinyl" is part mystery, part alternative history, part fractured memorial to the ghosts of the 80s music scene, all played out as though on a scratched record that keeps skipping back to the same haunting refrain:
"Jimmy Endicott was murdered."
Doug Devaney is a playwright, actor and voice-over performer, having worked with Netflix, BBC Radio 4 and Audible. His most recent audio performance was in the British version of Polish drama Lead Children, to go alongside his work on 1984, The Sandman and I, Robot. He also produces and presents "The Plastic Podcasts", a series of interviews with members of the Irish diaspora. He has had short stories published in American literary journal The First Line and post-apocalyptic anthology Rise Of The Badger And The Great Shrubbery. Black Vinyl is his first novel.
