Cold Turkey and the Case of the Missing Crime

What it lacks in grandeur, awe-inspiring scenery, breathtaking culture and complex enticing history, Stoke-on-Trent makes up for in factories and dogshit all over the pavements. But the Union of Crime-Fighters Heroes and Allied Trades, headed by the magnanimous Captain Rightwing, has decided to clean up this city. What can go wrong when your home is protected by hordes of bemuscled warriors in cloaks and tight blue lycra? The crime rates are dropping, the wealth is rising - but something is missing, and worst of all nobody is quite sure what it is. Now it falls upon Cold Turkey, shamed private detective and gentleman of leisure to save the day. Dogged by Police Chief Albert Kraken, hunted by New-Age hitmen and largely hindered by a veritable ensemble of well-meaning allies, talking heads and the mysterious fey-underworld, Cold Turkey will be tested to the very limits of his cognitive ability - and all this before 11 a.m. on a Thursday. The only certainty is that bacon sarnies are now in short supply owing to mysteriously vanishing bank funds, and there's going to be gnome improvement in sight until Cold gets to the bottom of a very cold case. 'Cold Turkey and the Case of the Missing Crime' does for Stoke what Chernobyl did for urban renewal which, as anyone from Stoke will tell you, is a big improvement.

About the Author :
Samuel James Morris was born near Boston, Massachusetts, in the year 1985 (through no fault of his own). Though he has no memories from his country of birth he suspects that he may have been a professional hitman for the CIA, or possibly, a baby. He was raised in secretive hermitage in the South East of England where, despite everyone's best efforts, he started writing and performing his own material. In 2003 Sam left his rural idyll to study drama at Staffordshire University in Stoke-on-Trent, where he learnt Many Strange Things. Since graduating Sam has put on his first play, 'Citizen Gloom, Savour of the Universe', in 2007, and has been published in 'Philosophy Now' magazine as well as participating in the Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers' Programme. He has been intermittently involved in politics, standing as a candidate twice for the UK Green Party (much to the chagrin of the local authorities who later discovered that at 19 he wasn't legally old enough to stand - despite receiving 20% of the votes) and helping to mastermind the mildly infamous Waste Your Vote campaign of independent mayoral candidate Gary Oliver of Stoke-on-Trent. In 2004 he led a hard-fought and unsuccessful campaign to have the Royal Geographical Society declare him an official Mountain (eventually rejected because of the catastrophic printing costs this would inflict on Ordinance Surveys). He insists that he only maintains political involvement to demonstrate the inherent flaws of a system that lets anyone participate. When not writing Sam dislikes drinking tea, pretending he can play the mandolin and reading more than is probably healthy for a young man.