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Eye of the Cricket

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Lew Griffin - Eye of the Cricket: 1. Victim

Lew Griffin - Eye of the Cricket

1. Victim

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Lew Griffin - Eye of the Cricket, 1. Victim

New Orleans private detective Lew Griffin is asked to find a missing boy.

Lew Griffin, a writer and detective, is asked to identify a truck accident victim.  James Sallis’s thriller read by Ray Shell.

Lew Griffin is a a black man living in New Orleans, haunted by lost loves - including the son he assumes to be dead.  

He's a university lecturer, a novelist and, if he can be persuaded, a Private Eye.   

Just as Lew starts to pick up his writing after a four year hiatus,  he is interrupted by a call from an Emergency Room medical student.  

A victim of a truck accident has been admitted.  He was found carrying one of Lew's books - signed - so Lew is invited along to the hospital to try and identify the young man.  A student then asks Lew if he can help him track down his brother who has also disappeared.

From a series of detective novels written by James Sallis, first published in 1997.

Read by Ray Shell. 

Abridged in ten parts  and produced by Gordon House.  

Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in March 2006.

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